EVANSTON (WBBM) — Today starts the warnings, and a week later will start $550 tickets for anyone caught going over 20 miles per hour in school zones when children are present between 7am and 4 pm.
Evanston Police Commander Tom Guenther stresses this is not a revenue raising device but an effort to protect the children of the lake shore community just north of Chicago.
Commander Guenther says motorists are responsible for obeying the law and so will be fined, even if they say they didn’t see any children in the area.
The fine for violation of the state school zone ordinance had been $150 plus $50 to the Evanston school district. Now that the city ordinance is in place, the fine is $500 and $50 to the school district with the fine handled in an Evanston administrative court instead of a state linked traffic court.
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