Entries Tagged as 'dibs'

Logan Square Dibs

January 16th, 2009 · 12 Comments

dibs_1

dibs_2

dibs_3

dibs_4

dibs_5

dibs_6

dibs_7

dibs_8

dibs_9

“Dibs” is when a person who shovels a parking spot on a public street gets to put some random junk in that spot when their car is not there and then no one else can park there. I don’t know if it’s legal or not, but Daley is on record defending it as a Chicago tradition.

When I lived in Roscoe Village I rarely saw people marking dibs. Probably because a lot of people have garages there. >When I was in the East Ukrainian Village neighborhood I saw dibs more. But, never have I seen it as much as I did this week in Logan Square. The dibs photos above were all taken on the same block in Logan Square. And I only walked down half of the block.

More information on dibs.

[Read more →]

Tags:······

Dibs on a Fire Hydrant?

February 1st, 2005 · 2 Comments

Dibs on a Fire Hydrant?
Dibs, East Ukrainian Village, Chicago

Isn’t it a little past the acceptable time to be calling dibs anyway? The storm was a week ago.

[Read more →]

Tags:···

Dibs

January 25th, 2005 · 11 Comments

Dibs

Dibs

Dibs
Dibs in the East Ukrainian Village, Chicago

After our last big storm Mike asked if I would take some photos of people calling dibs on parking spots but I didn’t see any of it in my neighborhood. This storm was the worst storm to hit Chicago since 2002 and was enough to make the residents of the Ukrainian Village call dibs on their parking spots. For more on dibs, read this Chicagoist post.

[Read more →]

Tags:···