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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Many who drive and park on Chicago's streets are familiar with the wintertime tradition known as "dibs." The video featured is from a previous report. When the snow comes, and drivers ...

Chairs are used to hold a cleared parking space in the 8600 block of S. Kingston Avenue in Chicago on Feb. 4, 2022. After clearing a spot, people will sometimes call “dibs” on it and place objects in ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- When it comes to reserving dibs for parking spaces after shoveling cars out of the snow, to say Chicagoans are passionate about it as an understatement. This is a dibs story of ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Dibs – setting out items to protect parking spaces on city streets – is normally something you'd expect to see in the wintertime in Chicago. It comes up in the winter when snow piles ...

The city of East Chicago warned residents Monday not to engage in the decades-old tradition of claiming cleared parking spots with furniture or other items. In a statement on Facebook, the city said ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- After a snowy week in Chicago, even as the city began to thaw, there was still plenty of slushy, frozen mess clogging Chicago streets to make some parking spots tricky to maneuver. As ...

Earlier this winter we answered a question from curious citizen Jason Misuinas about the history and ethics of dibs — the practice of shoveling out a parking spot and then “saving” it with something ...

What do a baby stroller, plastic lawn chair, electric fan and space heater box have in common? All have doubled as wintertime parking-spot placeholders, placed on the street by snow-weary residents of ...