Might be this weekend. Driving from missouri. How bad of a drive am i in for? Last time i drove thru illinois was hard enough going thru the middle from indiana. Now i'm driving right up thru it.
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might be driving to milwaukee
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You will be fine traffic wise until you get close to Chicago, then depending on whether you are hitting rush hour or not, you will be kinda stuck for a while.
What is your starting city so we can map it?
What is your starting city so we can map it?
Fun... What is that? about 13-15 hour drive?
yikes! I knew it took about 7 from Kirksville,Mo to Chicago.
yikes! I knew it took about 7 from Kirksville,Mo to Chicago.
Where are you starting from in Missouri. It might make a difference on where you end up in Illinois
http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr=M...913971&sspn=0.496548,0.965424&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=6
or yahoo
http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&lat=41.087169&lon=-88.936691&zoom=8&q1=Rolla, MO&q2=Milwaukee, WI
I would leave around 8 or so sunday. I'm selling my race bike to a guy up there. just waiting for him to buy it on ebay. I'm not going until he does and sends me the money to drive up there.
or yahoo
http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&lat=41.087169&lon=-88.936691&zoom=8&q1=Rolla, MO&q2=Milwaukee, WI
I would leave around 8 or so sunday. I'm selling my race bike to a guy up there. just waiting for him to buy it on ebay. I'm not going until he does and sends me the money to drive up there.
He is. Yea i like that route better. I'm a cardinals fan so i don't want to get mugged by getting to close to chicago 
Rolla, eh? I've probably driven Rolla-St. Louis 150 times or so. Shouldn't have any problems on that leg on a Sunday. 44 through St. Louis usually doesn't get bad unless there's an accident or something. Can't help you with Illinois though.
And gas is cheaper in WI, so fill up around exit 185. Tons of stations, a few restaurants, would be a good place to take a break. There is some construction on 90 up north, but you won't be in it for long as I recall, it is mostly to Rockford, and not much before you get to the WI border.
You don't need to go through Chicago to get from St. Louis to Milwaukee. The traffic is a nightmare. I've driven that route about 15 times and I always take ishater's route. My only advice is to avoid Chicago like the plague.
Wow, you have a Boring drive ahead of you. I was in St. Louis last weekend for The Jackson Browne concert and the drive through Indiana was Dreadful
Yea. I drove from Cleveland back home one time. Indiana wasn't so bad. people weren't very friendly at gas stations i noticed. And the 65 mph speed limit was kinda strange. Didn't know why i was passing people so fast until i noticed a speed limit sign half way thru the state
Illinois was the worst.
Yeah, I've driven through Indiana and it's the most boring thing I've done. Ditto for Ohio. Once I got to Pennsylvania, it wasn't as bad because the scenery along I-80 is very beautiful
I used to do a weekly trip from Chicago to Akron after college. OMG, I hated driving through Indiana, and I got terrified of the Ohio State Patrol!
Only part I enjoyed speeding (or more like scared of them crazies) was IL, 294 and such all the way to the Indiana border.
Too many trucks right at the border, and they do not slow down ... ever!
Boy what a day.
We got on the road around 9am and had good luck until 50 miles inside IL. Had a blow out on one of the trailer tires. Well, it was gone by the time i noticed it and stopped.
Luckily we were about a mile from a small tire shop. Guy didn't have a tire that would fit the axle, and all the wheels he had were the wrong bolt patern. So we drove about 20 minutes to the next town to get a tire from wally world.
Got back and he mounted the tire and we were on our way. At this point we were 3 hours behind schedule.
Once we started getting more and more north the wind started to pick up. I was getting half the gas milage and was being blown all over the road. The wind was so strong that the doors on the other side of the car the wind was blowing were loosing their seal and you could hear the wind coming thru.
We finally met up with the guy just south of rockford. Around mile marker 99.
Loaded up the 4wheeler, he gave me the rest of the money he owed me and we headed our seperate ways. When we left it started to snow a little That was around 8pm.
Didn't get home until about 2:30 am.
What a day. Also, i don't see many illinois drivers here in Missouri, but the ones i do see drive like idiots. And i further proved it when i got into illinois. When i tried getting back on the highway after the flat tire was discovered i came within about 5 inches of getting side swiped. a$$ hole didn't get over even though i had signaled to get back on and was doing about 40 mph.
They tailgate like crazy, don't signal, and when they pass you they get back in your lane about 5 feet in front of you.
What is their deal?
We got on the road around 9am and had good luck until 50 miles inside IL. Had a blow out on one of the trailer tires. Well, it was gone by the time i noticed it and stopped.
Luckily we were about a mile from a small tire shop. Guy didn't have a tire that would fit the axle, and all the wheels he had were the wrong bolt patern. So we drove about 20 minutes to the next town to get a tire from wally world.
Got back and he mounted the tire and we were on our way. At this point we were 3 hours behind schedule.
Once we started getting more and more north the wind started to pick up. I was getting half the gas milage and was being blown all over the road. The wind was so strong that the doors on the other side of the car the wind was blowing were loosing their seal and you could hear the wind coming thru.
We finally met up with the guy just south of rockford. Around mile marker 99.
Loaded up the 4wheeler, he gave me the rest of the money he owed me and we headed our seperate ways. When we left it started to snow a little
That was around 8pm. Didn't get home until about 2:30 am.
What a day. Also, i don't see many illinois drivers here in Missouri, but the ones i do see drive like idiots. And i further proved it when i got into illinois. When i tried getting back on the highway after the flat tire was discovered i came within about 5 inches of getting side swiped. a$$ hole didn't get over even though i had signaled to get back on and was doing about 40 mph.
They tailgate like crazy, don't signal, and when they pass you they get back in your lane about 5 feet in front of you.
What is their deal?