Downtown Chicago, it averages out to $3.50 per hour. Besides the increase in rate, the meters are now filling up so fast with quarters that they stop taking them and then you’re in violation.
Even my West Town neighborhood used to be $0.15 per hour and is now $0.15 for 15 minutes - that’s a fourfold increase! What a rip!
I’ll be shopping on-line or mail-order from now on (preferably from a company that doesn’t have a store in Illinois - to avoid state tax).
Buy a bike and ride it to downtown. Also try to get a good bike lock.