Easy way across Chicago?

[Keygrip]

Arriiving Chicago Midway around 9:30pm on Tuesday - will have wheelie suitcase plus carry on.

Hotel is near O'Hare.

Any particularly good :D (or bad!!! :{ ) methods of transport between the two??

<<edited for arrival time in MDW - not departure time in Orlando>>

[georgetg]

Take the EL (Elevated train in Chicago sometimes called CTA)

Orange line Downtown then switch and get on the Blue line for Ohare

$2

go to ohare and hop the hotel bus back, or exit the train in Rosemont...


Cheers
George

[Keygrip]

George - thanks for that. I guess that comes under the heading of particularly bad methods of getting across Chicago.

I was in MDW last Tuesday and caught the "L" (Orange line) to go into town. $1.50 one way - but took a good 30 minutes.

To do that and then have to get the matching Blue Line back out again doesn't have a pleasant ring to it - especially at 11pm.

I'm going to be there for a few days - I feel a Hertz car coming on!!

[GalleyWench]

Keygrip, CoachUSA runs an hourly bus service between Midway and O'Hare airports, check their website to see if the service runs this late. www.coachusa.com is the web address.

[Keygrip]

Thanks GalleyWench (great name, by the way).

Looked at the nightmare site. Coach USA finishes at 9pm. Darn!!.

There appears to be a shuttle bus that finishes at 10pm (wonder how quick the baggage carousel will work??).

There are "shared vans" whatever they are - or a cab ( for about $40).

[Keygrip]

Well, I got that one wrong.

Cab was $103.68 to cross Chicago - to be fair driver did warn me before departure from Midway that the charge would be "meter times one and a half". The meter clocked around $68.

[Momo]

More complex than that:

Shared rides from Midway to O'Hare cost $35 per person. Some suburbs are indeed 1.5 times meter from the airport. The main ones are not.

http://www.yellowcabchicago.com/rates.htm

Local cab companies operate fixed rates to many locations. For example, I did Oak Park to O'Hare for $33 a month ago.

Momo