Looking at the picture in the lot it would be the left side of the lot when you enter for reserved parking.  The right side where a lot of us tailgate is not in the green designated for Southwest facilities.  The right side is where the columns for the exit are and that is not green on the picture.

RobRBearsFan:

  I don't see how the Bears can control the entire 31st lot of McCormick place and make it coupon parking.  Its not their property. 

It's not complicated -- they write a big fat check to McCormick Place and say "we're taking your parking lot on Sundays in the fall, and you don't have to deal with any of the hassle any more."

jpm121:

RobRBearsFan:

  I don't see how the Bears can control the entire 31st lot of McCormick place and make it coupon parking.  Its not their property. 

It's not complicated -- they write a big fat check to McCormick Place and say "we're taking your parking lot on Sundays in the fall, and you don't have to deal with any of the hassle any more."

 

It's even less complicated than that.  They're both (Soldier Field & MPEA) owned by government entitites whose parking is administed by Standard Parking.

Wow, this whole thing is really unsettling as I read through all this now. I have 2 Club season tix and 4 Non-PSL season tix, and the bears have still made me enter this damn parking lottery every year for a parking pass. I have been fortunate enough to get one every year, but this year they are doing several things I feel are just wrong. For one, am I the ONLY person who did NOT receive the email about the lottery on June 15th? I haven't changed my email address since the internet started. I confirmed this with the Bears office and they had no answer as to why I didn't get an email. it was only due to my checking the website and noticing the June 15th date, which had come and gone, did I realize I was never notified. Next, this monopolization of every single precious parking spot anywhere remotely close to that Stadium is very fishy to me. I suspect the fine Mayor is behind that move, somehow. That's just crap. How does ANYONE, without a pass, or from out of town, or who is just going to ONE game this year, find a place to park, or God forbid, plan to tail-gate? 1st the entertainment tax they tried to stick some fans with, now this. What's next? Have any of these people picked up a newspaper in the last 12 months and realized this country is in the worst recession in the last 1/4 century? UUUggghhhhh if someone has the where-with-all to start a petition, I will gladly sign it, or e-sign it.