I love this video!! I've traveled that leg of I-90 into downtown chicago soo many times!! On a good day, you can see the skyline about 20 miles away!! That put right around the O-hare area! Great video!!!
I really like the ambiance along the expressway at night. It has since been changed with the installation of cool white LED lighting, which makes it difficult to see at night because they're so bright.
Man, I dunno how in the heck I didn't see this video until now. Damn, you have really started to utilize the editing to the fullest in your most recent videos. Love it. The Kennedy Expwy; that roadway easily ranks up there with the worst I've seen anywhere in Los Angeles or the San Francisco Bay Area. Back in 2006, even after 10 p.m., I still spent almost 1 hour driving the Kennedy from the Loop to the I-90/I-94 split. Situation may have improved since, with the current economy...
I need to go back to Chicago again to see family! I do like the Illinois roadways better. One thing I learned when I went to Chicago many years back is that drivers don't screw around. They got a place to go and GET to.
@kingzo72788 I think Chicago is a very welcoming city, both physically and in terms of the people, and as eluko said I doubt you'd feel out of place. People up in Chicago are quite warm and hospitable everywhere you go, and there's all kinds of environments within the Chicagoland area, going from Manhattan-type urban to typical Midwestern rural.
Ah, Chicago, how I miss you. Best fucking city in the world. I always thought of Chicago drivers as a remarkably decent bunch. That's why my eyes almost popped out at 2:12. Such a Houston thing to do, man.
Funny thing; when I first heard of the Dan Ryan Expwy, I thought of the former sportcaster here in Tucson of the same name. I knew from the beginning that wasn't right. :)
@kingzo72788 im from south carolina and i know what you mean, i moved from simpsonville ' a small ass town" to chicago, it really showed me how big the world is in a sense, chicago was a fun town and there is plenty to do, i felt outta place for a while, but after your there for a month you'll submerge into the whole thing.
The Circle (Jane Bryne) Interchange you mentioned from 2:40 to 2:46, There is construction on a new flyover ramp from I-90/I-94 West (Dan Ryan Expressway facing Northbound) Concurrency to I-290/IL-110 (C-KC and Eisenhower Expressway Concurrency facing Westbound) which is expected to be completed by 2017 next year in Chicago, IL.
That was some mighty fine driving. Lol I'd get murdered in that. I've driven in downtown Kansas City before but that seems like child's play compared to this.
@ps3or360idontknow It's not that Chicago is better, it's that it's a completely different city from those two. Houston and Dallas offer things that Chicago doesn't and vice versa.
Y'know,, Eluko, I currently live in Peoria, IL, which is only a three hour drive from Chicago. You could've stopped by and recorded footage for your time lapse videos! Oh wait.... we only have three major "freeways" through Peoria: I-74, I-474 and Illinois Route 6. Neeeevermind. I suppose you'd need a lot of freeway to shoot vids. Nice vid though!
I would like to see IL-6 expanded beyond its current northern terminus in Mossville at some point in my lifetime, or during my time in Peoria (planning to move out west at some point)
That downtown interchange is a real pile of crap. IL has no average interchanges. They are either really great: (80@355, 55@355, 88@355, 290@355, 80/294@94/394, 88@294, 57@94, 90/94@55) Or they are really shitty (both 290 termini at either end of 90, 294@55, 290@294 and my favorite 294@57 where there is NO interchange (one is in the works though FINALLY). They rebuilt 80@55 but left it as a goddamn cloverleaf. IL kills me.
I like the crazy multi-stack interchanges where there are ramps soaring high in the sky above the freeways. (55@355 for example) Cloverleafs, and really any interchange that doesn’t have at least 1 flyover are boring and not creative IMO.
I would feel so weird and out off place if i went to Chicago. One im from the south so i maybe wont fit in so well to the northern ways and the cold wheater. Two im from a small city Birmingham AL. Well Birmingham is the biggest city in Alabama but it seems like a small city compared to the other major cities in US. I would love to go to Chicago and maybe live there its jus so far away.
