In this video we head into town on I-90/94 East, go west on I-290, turn around and head back to the city on I-290 to Lower Wacker Drive. All music and equipment FAQ's are in the closing credits.
As a former resident of Sprawling Business Park, TX (aka Dallas/Ft. Worth) I am so impressed with cities like Chicago which have actual rhyme and reason to their skylines. Truly an American treasure of a city. Would love to see an updated version to showcase all the new buildings!
At the beginning of this video, I love the view of the Chicago skyline heading eastbound of the Kennedy Expressway. It looks really iconic, as well as the Sears Tower and the view is pretty wide. In the previous video 16-07, I also like the view of the Chicago skyline heading northbound of Dan Ryan Expressway. It was like showing tall buildings in a picture.
Thanks for this fantastic trip around Chicago. So many highlights for me: Morton Salt, all the roadways going over 90-94 the closer it gets to downtown, the huge interchange with 290, the way 290 goes under the building and then just ends, and lower Wacker Drive. I hope some day I get to visit this magnificent city. I want to travel it both by train and automobile.
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Terrific views of Chicago, Jim. Very well done. As an aspiring RU-vid freeway videographer (which is quite the mouthful), these videos are always great to see.
I truly appreciate your videos through and through. Thanks for visiting my hometown and showcasing its great infrastructure. You literally passed by my place around the 90/94 and 290 interchange in the West Loop!
Great video! This is why I have to return to Chicago for a longer stay. I've been to Chicago twice, but only at the airport. My late, maternal grandfather used to live and work in Chicago before going up north to Canada. He used to live there in the early 1900s, after emigrating from Poland.
great video,love the lower wacker part--reminds me playing the one part of "N.F.S The run" where i drive a chicago police car down into lower wacker while avoiding the mafia helicopter shooting at me lol like a boss!!!
Awesome, thanks for this series of videos. I used to live in Chicago off of North Ave and commute down the Kennedy/Dan Ryan to the Stevenson every weekday, but it was a bit more crowded when I used to drive it. Adding in Lower Wacker at the end there was a nice touch!
Very nice ride! I always wondered about that lower road- Lower Wacker Drive, having raced in it in video games in the past- very cool! Very cool ride through downtown Chicago- very nice to see Lower Wacker Drive!! Impressed- and enjoying your trip this summer!!!
5:37 I'm pretty sure that blue 10th Gen Honda Civic marks the 1st time that car model is seen in your road trip videos. Correct me if I'm wrong. It was new back then since it was introduced in late 2015. More models of that were sold great until 2022 as that generation was discontinued and the 11th Gen was introduced in 2021 and they started selling those just months ago.
I'm going to Chicago on August 12th, but very nice video of the I-90/I-94 Concurrency with I-290 despite the fact about the new flyover being constructed which will be finished before 2020.
Wacker Drive...hey, isn't that an old Mt. Prospect '74 Dodge Monaco cop car headed east? Looks like it's got cop tires, cop shocks...it even runs good on leaded regular gas!
Chicago, Chicago- A town so nice I typed it twice. Featuring the best downtown area in North America and captured in all its magnificence by FWJ in his trusty Acura sedan while accompanied by the smooth pop sounds of Styx, who haven't sounded better since Paradise Theater
Back in the 60's, there was a cop who hid in lower wacker and took payoffs from speeders. I paid him once.lol Did you know there was a jazz drummer(not famous) named Freddie Wacker from the same Wacker family is the drive was named after? Also, when they were removing sites for the Congress Expy, those who dug up graves were quarantined for a while. One of my cousins did that.lol Love these old homey rides.
Driving on I290 is the best because you get a great view of the Sears Tower and all the Expressway were planed out by Daniel Burnham Great Plan of Chicago
HELLO JIM FROM RENO: THANKS FOR THE VIDEO OF MY HOMETOWN (CHICAGO): DON’T MISS THE TRAFFIC ON THE IKE FROM DUPAGE COUNTY INTO AUSTIN BLVD. (6000WEST). IN LATER YEARS I WOULD TAKE METRA DOWNTOWN OR PICK UP THE CTA IN FOREST PARK. CAN’T WAIT TO SEE LEAVING CHICAGO AS I DID MANY MOONS AGO. MIKE
Just blown away by the clarity of it! I've seen other cameras do similar videos, and they tend to be pretty blurry. Not sure if it's the road surface or if it's secured properly.
Awesome stuff Jim! Do you do any stabilization in post or is the BOSS of the PJ710 really this good?! Also, any experience shooting with DSLRs or mirrorless cameras? I'm considering getting a Lumix GX85 since it has Dual IS but i don't know how it would compare to BOSS.
Lambs worldwide enjoyed this ride around Chicago. This lamb has grazed on the grass of Millennium Park. It was yummy. To get there the human used Lower Wacker Drive.
Nope Chicago itself doesn’t have any tollways (other than the Skyway to Indiana), tollways are only in the suburbs and they’re extremely cheap like 75 cents with an IPass
Chicago, being on Lake Michigan, can be a very humid city. The metal on the overpasses rusts in cities like Chicago, being so close to a huge body of water, due to the fact that the lake makes the air more moist than other mid west cities that aren't close to large lakes.
How did you manage to catch I290 in an uncongested state? I think it's the most congested expressway in Chicagoland. Sometimes I take US66 or I55 to avoid it.
Jim, why the slow-mo, lit-up, psychedelic blur thing inside the tunnels? It takes away from the beauty of these rides. These vids are great, esp. without the Star Trek TMP 'wormhole' effect. Nothing surpasses the view "as is".
Because as-is can be boring, sometimes I will do things like that to spice up a video, it's a small thing that adds production values to the videos IMO. Really it's a small part of the overall production, can't please everyone.
It's more complicated than that, there have been a couple cases where a blocked song becomes unblocked after a few weeks or months so I'm just going to leave this alone, it's not an important enough of a stretch of road to re-make it.
