The City of Chicago is in the middle of a budget crisis.  How do I know this you ask?  I will tell you.  When you get 3 tickets within a week for not having a front license plate after going 17 months without getting one, something is fishy.  I didn’t even know that I was required to have a front license plate.  One of these tickets was received while my car was parked inside of the parking garage attached to my apartment complex, with the front of my car inches from a concrete wall, meaning someone basically had to crawl on top of my hood to look down to make sure there was a plate.We would have probably received a 4th ticket had Molly not noticed the cop driving down our street and walked out and told him that we already had 3 and that we had just moved and were in the process of putting one on.