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Autopilot America: Chicago parking MCP Server

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Autopilot America: Chicago parking is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 6 tools.

Free Chicago street cleaning alerts, permit zones, and ticket dismissal rates from City records.

Uptime history 11 days of history · worst day 0%
11 days agonow
0.0%
Uptime 24h
0 of 92 checks
6
Tools
read from the server
58 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Autopilot America: Chicago parking does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 0.0% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 6 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add chicago-parking --transport http https://www.autopilotamerica.com/api/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://www.autopilotamerica.com/api/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.chicago-parking]
url = "https://www.autopilotamerica.com/api/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chicago-parking": {
      "url": "https://www.autopilotamerica.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "chicago-parking": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.autopilotamerica.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

free
free_street_cleaning_alerts
Sign-up link for FREE Chicago street cleaning alerts (the person enters their address on the page): email and optional text at 7 PM the night before and 7 AM on cleaning day, and an optional automated call at 8 PM the night before and 7 AM. No card. For people who want reminders to move their car for street cleaning.
permit
permit_zone_lookup
Check whether a Chicago street address is in a residential permit parking zone, which zone, and the hours a permit is required. Use when someone asks if they can park on a block without a permit, or what zone their address is in. Chicago only. Source: City permit zone records and ordinance hours.
should
should_i_contest
Plain-language guidance for someone holding a Chicago parking or camera ticket: the deadline, how often that ticket type is dismissed, the reason that most often wins, and where to get help contesting it. Not legal advice.
sign
sign_up_for_autopilot
Start Autopilot America for a license plate: we check the plate for new Chicago parking and camera tickets and contest them by mail. For when someone wants their Chicago tickets handled, fought, contested or watched going forward. Returns one sign-up link with the plate filled in; the person signs the contest authorization and adds a card on that page (Safety Net is $0 to join; Pro is the all-included plan).
street
street_cleaning_schedule
Look up the upcoming City of Chicago street cleaning dates for a street address, plus its ward and section. Use when someone asks when street cleaning / street sweeping is on their block, or whether they need to move their car. Chicago only. Source: the City's published street cleaning schedule.
ticket
ticket_win_rate
How often Chicago parking and camera tickets of a given type are dismissed when contested by mail, from the City's own hearing records (obtained under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act). Omit violation_type for the overall rate and the list of types.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://www.autopilotamerica.com/api/mcp streamable-http answering 58 ms 6 min ago

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Autopilot America: Chicago parking — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Autopilot America: Chicago parking do?
It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: free_street_cleaning_alerts, permit_zone_lookup, should_i_contest, sign_up_for_autopilot, street_cleaning_schedule, ticket_win_rate. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Autopilot America: Chicago parking working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 92 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 58 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists Autopilot America: Chicago parking as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect Autopilot America: Chicago parking?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Autopilot America: Chicago parking need an API key?
No. Autopilot America: Chicago parking completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.