I have to fly into Midway and drive to Rosemont... darn shame, but Midway was about 700.00 less per person!
Anyway, MapQuest has burned me so many times I no longer trust it.
Can you tell me the fastest route from MDW to ORD?
My flight arrives at 930am so I will be on the road about 10am.
How long should it take to get there?
Thanks so much!!!!
~Laura

Anyone? Help...

The fastest way would be I-55 to 294.

I agree about MapQuest totally.

To find the best access to the above I-55 try www.randmcnally.com and plug in the driving directions for Midway/ OHare.

You will probably need some addresses or zip codes, but it will be worth it.
The access to I-55 from Midway you will need specific streets names and distances etc.

Rosemont is VERY close to OHare. The time it will take you is extremely variable, and I haven't taken it enough to know. But it takes me at least 55 minutes to get to OHare from where I am (at least 12 miles South of MDW). And that is on a very favorable traffic day. It has taken more than 1-1/2 hours as well.

The best route is through the city. Ciecro north to I-55. I-55 North to 90/94 West. At the "junction" of 90/94 continue on 90 west to I-190. I-190 to O'hare, or Manheim or River Roads for Rosemont (there'll be signs for the airport). You may be late enough to miss the worst of rush hour, but it will still be about 45 minutes. Good luck!

Back from Chicago and the drive went well... It took about 30 minutes to get from MDW to Rosemont. I can't recall the specifics but the roads were all tollroads , it seemed.
On the way back I guess I missed my exit and went the way that was not tollways, that passes downtown and the traffic was pretty bad. It was only 145pm and it took an hour to get to MDW.
I find people drive pretty politely in Chicago. We are much more aggressive here in Dallas.
Also, MDW is in a scary area. I stopped to get gas on Cicero and 55(?) and the big convenience store had everything locked up and covered, like candy bars! Never seen anything like it!

55th & Cicero is not too scary of an area, and if it looks that way to you- then you are not used to needing much security. There are much, much worse areas and some of them are not all South or East of 55th & Cicero either. Some of them are North from there.

I've left my car at MDW and have numerous incoming travelers stay in that area and they have all been just fine. Most stay in the 60's or South of the airport.

You are a trooper navigating that system without much knowledge- as it isn't the easiest.



There is lots of crime in any big city and actually

TX, that must be a Tx thing, my sister-in-law from Dallas thought MDW was in the "ghetto"! My husband's response was, "sis, if you think this is the ghetto, you've been leading way too sheltered of a life!"

No doubt... I am pretty sheltered.
I travel all over the US and Canada but rarely find myself in visibly questionable areas. I mean, I know the way a place looks does not always indicate how safe it is.
Funny thing, I live east of Dallas and regularly shop in some of the more notorious areas in Dallas without any concern. I don't even notice it...

I've never been to MDW, so I can't comment. But I once flew into Detroit City when Southwest used that instead of DTW. The drive from Detroit City to downtown was very scary...

You guys really make me laugh. And believe me I am NOT putting you down. Don't take it wrong.

Maybe I should start a business with tours of the ghetto, so that you can see what a ghetto looks like. In the last 10 years, I have taken the very elderly back to view the churches they were married in/ their first homes/ grammar schools etc. Much is gone. The cathedrals hurt the most. But Visitation is still there- that's where I was baptized.

I returned to my birth house last year and it's just a lot. The building we GAVE away which was next door (and to a wonderful man who kept it up for about 10 years) which was once elegant, has had all the marble striped off and stolen piecemeal. The brass and other metals are long gone. At least a quarter of the lots are vacant and another quarter are boarded or partially burnt. This is surrounded by blocks and blocks of the same.

There are many professional people who enter many, many "scary" neighborhoods every day. Biggest kudos to the Home Health Nurses over all. One male who was my very good friend, lasted about 18 months doing this job. But he was a veteran (Army) and knew how to defend himself pretty well.

OMG... You are so right. Home Health Nurses, is that the same as Visiting Nurses?
Not to mention all the postal carriers, etc...
And my poor son, who is in a total ghetto, Mosul

Yes, it is- the same as Visiting Nurses, but they are called Home Health Nurses here.

The postal carriers actually don't have it as bad as the police or fire or EMT's. That's because everyone knows that they carry aid checks among other things and so often times they are not touched. Garbage men also, tend to be left alone, but not always. My dad was a garbage man for 40 years. My brother a police detective (Chicago) says Iraq is hotter yet similar in some ways.

He's there right now- west of Baghdad.