Miata Mailing List: June 1999, Message #50

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I'm planning my overnighter to Chicago to attend my brother's graduation from Great Lakes Naval Base basic training and have a few questions for Chicago folks.

1.) How long does it take to get from O'Hare to GL at 10:45 at night? What is traffic like?
I'll be coming in on Thursday night.
2.) How long does it take to get back to O'Hare from GL on a Friday afternoon/evening. I
fly out of O'Hare at 7ish. 
3.) Anybody know of a decent hotel/motel within a short distance of GL? I know 
decent hotel/motel and military bases are mutually exclusive terms, but I'm easy, so long
as I have a bed with some springs that still work and there is a shower that actually has
hot water available for more than 45 seconds.
4.) How easy is it to get to/from GL from O'Hare. I'm not even sure what side of town 
O'Hare is on. Never been to Illinois. In fact, I've only been north of the Mason/Dixon
twice in my life, and both times I caught a taxi out of LaGuardia into NYC after my flight.
5.) Do ya think I oughta just stay Friday night and leave out of O'Hare on Saturday to 
save myself a lot of hassle? I'm not sure what traffic is like heading into Chicago on 
a Friday eve. Will I be traveling *against* the flow or with? (Yeah, I know, traffic doesn't
really "flow" in big cities. It oozes. :^)  ) I'm open to suggestions.

Please, email me here at work. No need to clutter up the list with this stuff. I just don't 
know who else to ask. Sorry to take up the bandwidth.

Scott and Nobody, since Woody went into the body shop this morning. :^(