Midway travel question

HydeSnark
Sat, 10 Sep 2016 03:00:15 +0000

@MindLife Depends on the people:luggage ratio.

If you have more than 2 pieces of luggage per person and lugging it around is very difficult, you’ll want to take an uber or a cab from O’Hare because you really don’t want to lug that across the CTA. It’ll be expensive.

If you can carry it onto the CTA you basically have three options:

Uber/Cab all the way there (very expensive)

Take the blue line to one of the loop stops (Jackson would be preferable, because it's closest to UChicago) and uber/cab from there

Transfer to the 6 bus (runs south along State), the green line (at Clark/Lake), or the red line (at Jackson). The 6 will take you to Hyde Park, get off at 57th or 59th. If you take the L, get off at Garfield and take the 55 bus eastbound and get off at Ellis. It's complicated, I know...the hub-and-space system isn't really designed to be easy to get from O'Hare to UChicago :( it's why people say to go to Midway.

Since moving into college is overwhelming and you probably don’t want to be figuring out the CTA on the same stressful day that you will be settling in, meeting your roommates, etc., I strongly recommend option 1 or 2. Option 2 will be about half as expensive, and I think that has the best balance of price and ease. An uber from downtown is usually only about $20, while getting a cab from O’Hare can run up to $60 or $70 (yikes). Taking the blue line from downtown is super easy, just follow the signs to the “Trains to the City”, get on the train, and get off at Jackson.