Sign Up for Alternate Side Parking E-Blast and CodeRED Text Messages

Did you know that you can receive email alerts and text messages notifying you that alternate-side parking is in effect after a significant snowfall? By subscribing to SkokieNews and CodeRED alerts, you can avoid being ticketed for violating alternate-side parking regulations due to snow.

To subscribe for SkokieNews email alerts, visit www.skokie.org and click on the “Subscribe to SkokieNews” link in the top right-hand corner for email alerts. To receive text message alerts, click on the CodeRED icon that also is near the top of the home page.

The alternate-side parking program ensures that streets are clear for emergency vehicles during a snow accumulation of two inches or more. Besides subscribing for email alerts, there are numerous ways to learn if alternate-side parking is in effect:

• Call the Snow Hotline at 847/675-7669;

• Listen to 1660 AM Skokie Radio;

• Visit www.skokie.org and look for a notice near the top of the home page;

• Sign up for CodeRED at www.skokie.org for text message alerts;

• Tune to SkokieVision cable and look for the crawl message at the bottom of the screen (Channel 25 on RCN systems, Channel 17 on Comcast systems); or

• Listen for the emergency siren that sounds at 7 a.m. to signal that the program is in effect from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. that day.

For more information on the alternate-side parking program, please visit www.skokie.org.