Chicago city worker yanked out of NW Side after writing thousands of tickets

Is there such a thing as doing your job too well or producing too much volume with too much zeal? Apparently so, if your job is to write Chicago parking tickets.

A parking enforcement aide has been yanked out of a Far Northwest Side ward after the office of Ald. Marge Laurino (39th) fielded a barrage of complaints about over-the-top ticketing.

Andrew J. Petersen infuriated local residents by bragging about his ticket totals in an almost taunting string of Facebook posts.

Laurino stressed that the transfer “wasn’t my call.” She simply passed along “multiple complaints” about what she called Petersen’s “unprofessional behavior” to the city’s Department of Finance, which employs the city’s army of parking enforcement aides.

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