Find out free. We pull your complete ticket history — every citation, fine, and late fee ever written to your plate — straight from the City of Chicago.
100% free · No account needed · Results in ~5 days
What's in the Plan
The Chicago Ticket Defense Plan has three layers of protection, all on autopilot. No other service combines all three.
The app watches your car and warns you before you get a ticket:
Night-before alerts for your home block. Move your car in the morning instead of paying the ticket in the afternoon.
We handle everything — the research, the argument, and the mailing:
Revenue and win-rate figures from 2025 City of Chicago FOIA ticket and hearing records.
$562M across the city is hard to picture. Here are three free tools — no signup — that put your own ticket history and risk in context.
Based on analysis of 35.7 million Chicago ticket records
Most drivers pay because they don't know which violations are actually beatable.
We've analyzed 35.7 million Chicago tickets to understand:
• Which codes win most often
• Which arguments succeed
• Which tickets aren't worth fighting
Most drivers start with the free Safety Net — $0 to join, and we only charge when we win you a contest or step in before a fine doubles. Get a lot of tickets? Pro covers everything for a flat $99/year.
SAFETY NET
Pay only when we save you money or handle a chore you forgot.
Why a card for a $0 plan?
We only charge it if we actually save you money (winning a contest) or step in to pay a liable fine so the City can’t pile on late fees. No win, or you handled it yourself? Never charged.
Joining grants Autopilot the exclusive right to contest your tickets by mail— we draft & mail the letters; you can send us evidence to include.
Get Safety Net — $0AUTOPILOT PRO
Year-round protection. Cancel anytime.
Less than the cost of one parking ticket.
Beat-It-Or-It’s-Free Guarantee: get an eligible ticket we contest and we don't get it dismissed in your first year, and we refund every dollar.
We monitor your plate and send free street-cleaning & snow-ban alerts so you avoid tickets in the first place.
Get a ticket and we draft & mail the contest. Dismissed or reduced → we keep 50% of what you save. Not won → you pay nothing.
If a ticket is ruled liable, we pay it before the City doubles it — the city cost plus a small $15 fee.
21 days before we’d ever pay a liable ticket on your behalf, this email lands in your inbox. Pay it yourself in the meantime and we charge nothing.
Hi Randy,
Your contest for ticket #ABC1234567 was decided against you, and the city wants $75.00.
Because you have late-fee protection on, we’ll charge your card on file and pay the city for you on Friday, June 19, 2026 — 21 days from now.
We give you 21 days so you have time to file an appeal or pay it yourself. Under MCC § 9-100-050, the city’s late penalty attaches on day 25 — we leave a 4-day buffer so the charge clears before then.
Turn it off for this ticket any time before Jun 19, 2026 → autopilotamerica.com/account/autopay
This is the real email — illustrative ticket / date / amount. You also get a receipt the day we pay.
Chicago's ticket machine runs on drivers who assume they'll lose.
You don't have to.
Built specifically for Chicago's parking code system.
Not a generic national template.