Chicago: The largest city of Illinois, in the northeast part of the state on Lake Michigan. It is a major port and the commercial, financial, industrial, and cultural center of the Middle West. It is also the third-largest U.S. city. Chicago was nearly destroyed by a disastrous fire in 1871. Population: 2,783,726.

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Illinois: A state of the north-central United States. It was admitted as the 21st state in 1818. The area was explored by the French in the late 1600s, ceded by France to the British in 1763, and ceded by them to the newly formed United States in 1783. Springfield is the capital and Chicago the largest city. Population: 11,466,682.


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Air Travel

  • AReCO - Alliance of Residents Concerning O'Hare - A grass roots organization and is separate from all other organizations that represents over 1200 residents from about a 25 mile radius of O'Hare, including Chicago. Includes information on noise, pollution, expansion and contacts.
  • Chicago O'Hare International Airport : ORD - Airport guide featuring maps, terminal, hotel, car rental, and car parking information.
  • O'Hare International Airport - Terminal maps, ground transportation, parking and concession information.
  • O'Hare Noise Compatibility Commission - Members include leadership from area cities, villages and school districts to provide information on technical improvements and public resources to noise abatement.
  • Suburban O'Hare Commission - A consortium of local governments from the communities surrounding O'Hare International Airport, including Addison, Bensenville, DuPage County, Elk Grove, Elk Grove Township, Elmhurst, Itasca, Maine Township, Park Ridge, Roselle, Schiller Park and Wooddale. Includes news on expansion, legislation, issues, pollution, and contacts.
  • Midway International Airport - MDW - Offers airline information, terminal maps, history timeline, current features, parking, passenger services, and exhibits.
  • Midway Park Saver - A low cost parking option at Midway Airport. Pricing listing and contact information provided.
  • The Chicago Airport System - City of Chicago Department of Aviation official site for O'Hare Airport, Midway Airport, and Meigs Field.
  • Chicago Department of Aviation - Local information, particularly about O'Hare, Midway, Gary Indiana and Meigs Field.
  • Chicago/Romeoville/Lewis University Airport - LOT - Corporate field. Includes layout, area maps, lodgings, attractions, photo gallery, development opportunities, and information for pilots and on the services.
  • Friends of Merrill C Meigs Airport - CGX - Unofficial home page of Chicago's downtown lakefront facility. General information, including current legislation, becoming a member, news, events, history, volunteers, live air traffic control, web cam and online store.
  • Interfaith Airport Chapels of Chicago - Offers Catholic, Protestant, and Muslim services at O'Hare International Airport and Midway Airport. Includes location within the airports, hours of operation, and service schedules.
  • ZAU Chicago Center South Area - Schedule information, Events, CIC information, Bid Schedule.

Buses

  • Chicago Transit Authority: Bus Schedules - Provides downloadable PDF versions for over 100 CTA bus routes and schedules.
  • ChicagoBus.org - Information on the CTA bus system. View rosters, image galleries, and operational information.
  • Busville USA - Official site for Cardinal Charters and Tours, United Limo, and Tri State Coach Lines. Charter bus services, plus transportation to Chicago's O'Hare and Midway Airports from northern Indiana, Chicago suburbs and southeastern Wisconsin. A division of Travelways, Inc.
  • Pace Bus - Offering public transportation to over 100,000 people a day. Site offers information on schedule and fares, employment, service areas, news and links.
  • Party Bus Chicago - Welcome to PartyBusChicago.com. We are the leading provider of Chicago Party Bus service. If you are unfamiliar with party buses they are just like a limousine but have a different body on them. All of our party buses and limo buses have nice leather seating, loud sound systems with cd and iPod hookups, nice lighting, built in bars, and much more. You can take one of our buses to any area in Illinois. Our prices are very affordable and we provide great service. We have different Chicago party bus and limo bus options depending on how many passengers you have in your party. Avoid getting a DUI and book us for your next even so you don't have to worry about drinking and driving. We are here to provide service for any event you might have so give us a call now to book a bus.

Airport Shuttles

  • Airport Express - Ground transportation services and shuttles to and from O'Hare and Midway Airports and offers services for individual travelers, group travelers, meeting and conventions. Coupons, reservation form and contacts provided.
  • A-1 Diamond Limousine Inc. - Chicago's first class limousine company. Where service is always given, also specializing in red carpet weddings.
  • A-1 Luxury Limousine, Inc. - Offers online reservations and quotes, including details on wedding packages and special events. Contact form and location map of office provided.
  • Absolute Dream Limousines - Family owned and operated business featuring stretch and classic limos. Includes brochure and contacts.
  • Accent on Excellence - Limousine and SUV services for local, social, and long distance trips.
  • AFSL Inc. - Offering limousine chauffering, taxi cab transportation service in the Chicago area. Online reservation form, feedback form and pricing information provided.
  • Alante Limousines - A 24-hour limousine service with a full range of services in the Chicagoland and Nortweast Indiana area. Serves all Chicago airports, weddings, proms, sporting events, and special occasions.
  • All American Limousine - Schiller Park limousine service offers online reservations for business and pleasure.
  • All American Limousine and Transportation - Dedicated to providing professional service for weddings, concerts, airport and corporate events. Chicago, South Suburban and Northwest Indiana.
  • Aloha Limousine Services, Inc - Deluxe strech limos serve all Chicago airports, weddings and sporting events.
  • American Coach Limousine - Features vehicle, reservation and services information.
  • American One Limousine - Provides 24-hour, 7 days a week transportation services for luxurious weddings, parties, proms, and birthdays. Includes pricing information for area localities and airport pickup.
  • ASTARR Luxury Limousine Service - Limousine and transportation service in Chicago area. Contact information provided.
  • A Better Limousine Service, Inc. - Specializing in weddings and charters, includes 10-, 12-, and 14-passenger custom-made limos. Features interior and exterior photo gallery and contact form.
  • Chartered Elegance Limousine Service - Providing all occasion limousine service in Lake, Cook and McHenry counties in Illinois.
  • Chicago Area Limousine - Services including airport, charter, wedding and corporate transportation. Includes online reservation and price quote form.
  • Chicago Limousine, Inc. - For over a decade, providing professional limousine services. Offers online reservations, and details of its 4 to 10 passenger Lincoln stretch vehicles.
  • Chicagoland Transportation Solutions - Ground transportation management supplier of tour and transportation services for the Chicago area, including limos, vans, motorcoaches, a trolley, and a stretch Rolls-Royce.
  • Classic Chassis - Exclusive Rolls Royce and Bentley Motor Cars. Chauffeur driven rentals for all occasions. Based in Schaumburg.
  • Elegant Trolleys - Trolley service available especially for weddings and special events in the south suburban Chicago area. Includes photos and contacts.
  • Embassy Limousine - Offer 24-hour service with fully licensed and insured, professional chauffers. Off-duty Chicago cops as drivers available. Online registration form and rate information provided.
  • Exclusive Coach - Providing transportation for all types of events like weddings, proms and corporate limo service.
  • Express Livery - Individual and group pickup and drop off to and from Chicagoland hotels, O'Hare and Midway airports, Naval Station Great Lakes, and other locations in Chicago and suburbs. Online reservation form provided.
  • First Chicago Cars And Limousines - Pricing and vehicle descriptions. Site also lists packages available.
  • Hinsdale United Limousine Service, Inc. - Full service limousine company serving Chicagoland and surrounding counties with luxury sedans, super stretch limos, and limousine party buses.
  • HTS: Henry's Transportation Service - Rates, reservation and vehicle information for the Chicago-based limousine company.
  • Just Magnificent Limo - This Certified Professional Chauffeur serves Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan and offers sedans, luxury stretch limousines, and private or share coaches.
  • La Volpe Limousine Service - Streamwood-based company that offers 24-hour, full service, in stretch limousines.
  • Limos Without Limits, Ltd. - Offers luxury ground transport throughout Chicagoland for airport pickup and delivery, weddings and events.
  • Magnificent Limousine - Provide worldwide limousine, sedan, van, and specialty vehicles services. Chauffeured transportation to corporate, airport, hotels, travels, and concerts.
  • Midwest Transit System Vehicle Charter - Full service ground transportation. Charter chauffer sedans, and limousines available.
  • MonarchUSA Limousines, Inc. - Offers 4-, 8- and 10-passenger vehicles for weddings, airport travel, sporting and special events.
  • Murray's Private Car - Professional limosine service with contact information and links to area maps and interests.
  • O'Hare Limousine Service - Full-service ground transportation services with over 100 vehicles, including buses. Offers packages, and contact details.
  • Petra Limo Services - Features Lincoln Town Cars, Mercedes S Class Sedan, and Lincoln Stretch black or white limousines in 6-, 8- and 10-passenger versions. Also, offers luxury and charter bus services. Pricing and contact details provided.
  • Pontarelli Companies - Nationwide transportation service travel agency and limousine service.
  • Royalty Limousines Inc. - Features new fleet, including SUVs, seating 8-14 passengers serving all Chicagoland suburbs.
  • Safe Travel Livery Cab - Limousine and sedan services featuring detailed rates based on location, fleet vehicles, and contact details.
  • Spare Wheels Transport Van Charters - Corporate transportation; Shuttle service for large groups for events, social gatherings, and designated driver parties. Based out of Saint Charles. Serving the entire Chicago area and Northern Illinois.
  • 1st Choice Limousine Service - Features 24-hour luxury ground transportation service operating in Illinois and Northwest Indiana.
  • Stretch Limousine, Inc. - Ground transportation services in Chicago and suburbs.
  • Sundline Limousine Service - Offers airport transportation, weddings, airport, corporate functions and conventions.
  • Town & Country Limousine Inc. - Transportation services including airport pickups, special events and weddings. Includes vehicle features and contacts.
  • W-Limo - O'Hare and Midway airport limo transportation, along with limousine services for proms, concerts, and other special events.
  • Your Private Limo - Limousine service for Chicago and suburbs, only newer sedans and stretch limousines.
  • Bales Unlimited Inc. - Provides a full range of motor coach and limousine services to accommodate virtually any transportation request.
  • Illinois Limousine Association - An association of Illinois limousine operators of all sizes. Consumer and member sections that include a membership list, information and education, newsletters, airline links and flight tracking.
  • LEX Lincolnland Express - Bus services to and from Champaign, Danville, Indianapolis, Bloomington and Chicago. Features its schedules, pricing and locations.
  • Lincoln Land Limo Service, Inc. - Full service limousine company serving Kankakee and surrounding Will, Ford, and Iroquois counties, including Lake County, Indiana.

Mass Transit

  • Chicago ''L'' - Information on the rapid transit system known as the 'L' including history, stations, route maps, news, FAQs, and vocabulary.
  • Chicago Transit - A Yahoo mailing list and message board devoted to the discussion of mass transit.
  • CTA - Chicago Transit Authority - The nation's second largest public transportation system provides rail, bus, and other transportation information for travel around Chicago.

Ride Sharing

  • I-GO Cars - A car sharing program or pay per use transportation service that provides the freedom and convenience of using a car without the costs and hassles of owning one.

Roads & Highways

  • Illinois Department of Transportation    - The official site of the department. Includes information on construction projects and information about doing business with the department.
  • Illinois Highways Page    - A guide to the origin and evolution of the numbered highway system of Illinois. Includes route logs and other highway trivia.
  • The Cape Rock - Roads and Highways - A guide to the roads and highways around Cape Girardeau, Missouri including roads in southern Illinois.
  • Chicago Department of Transportation - Offers news, real time traffic information and weekly bulletins, projects and programs, and information on bureaus of highways, streets, traffic, signs and markings, bridges and transit, inspections, and administration and planning.
  • 336 Coalition - Supports a four-lane highway running from Peoria to Macomb.
  • The Highways of St. Louis - Includes information about south western Illinois. Contains a speed trap page, images of old road maps, freeway junction list, photos, and rant page.
  • Illinois Road Photos - Photographs of the state's highways collected by Dan Garnell.
  • Illinois Tollway - Contains brief historical information about toll roads in Illinois.
  • The Illinois Tollway - Information on the Illinois tollway system, including the I-Pass electronic toll collection system.
  • Illinois Tollway Oases: Then and Now - History and details of these unusual service areas.
  • Lake Michigan Circle Tour - Contains resources related to this scenic drive around Lake Michigan.
  • Marshall County Highway News From the Past - Contains news articles from the late 1920s and early 1930s about roads and highways in Marshall County, Illinois.
  • National Road Association of Illinois - Organization focused on promoting the history of the first byway going west across America, currently known as U.S. Route 40. Includes history of the road, stories, membership details, and contacts.
  • Prairie Parkway Study - Official Illinois Department of Transportation web site covering the progress of the study looking at building a new expressway west of the Chicago area. Counties included in the study are Kendall, Kane, Grundy, Will, LaSalle, and DeKalb.
  • The Road Ahead - A look at old road maps including scans from 1920s era maps showing early alignments of US 60 in Illinois.
  • Spoon River Drive - Organization promoting this scenic route in Fulton County which was the setting of Edgar Lee Master's "Spoon River Anthology". Contains maps and other information.
  • Transportation and Land Use Reform - Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest site against construction of new Illinois tollways (and other out of state highways).
  • The Transportation Pages - Aaron Renn's information and opinions on Chicago area commuting.
  • Chicago Tribune: Current Traffic Conditions - Map of area traffic, including accidents, construction zones, slippery areas, closed and blocked lanes.
  • TANN: Chicago - The Travel Advisory News Network features an interactive map of area traffic conditions.
  • Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) - Offers news, real time traffic information and weekly bulletins, projects and programs, and information on bureaus of highways, streets, traffic, signs and markings, bridges and transit, inspections, and administration and planning.
  • ParkCard - A charge card for parking at InterParking garages located throughout the Chicagoland. Information on how to get the card, location maps of participating lots, and contact information.

Shipping & Storage

  • Angel Logistics, Inc. - Offers a variety of intermodal services, including container and trailer storage yard, computerized tracking and radio dispatch. Features include services overview, container search, and contact information.
  • Auto Driveaway Company - Headquarters for worldwide vehicle transportation services firm for commercial, business and private individuals. Includes client listing, overview of services, locations, driver inquiries, and contact information.
  • Barco Products Company - Offers recycled plastic and maintenance products for parking lots, buildings and grounds.
  • Belt Railway Company of Chicago - An intermediate switching terminal railroad supporting more than 250 miles of track and offering industrial and intermodal facility development opportunities. History, capabilities and contacts provided.
  • Chicago Freight Systems, Inc. - Offers services in trucking, cartage, pool distribution and freight distribution. Operates out of a 50,000 square foot heated facility. Location map, services overview and contacts provided.
  • Freedman Seating - Manufactures seats and seating related products for buses, trucks, specialty, and commercial vehicles. Features products, fabrics, specials, and an online build-your-own program.
  • ITL - International Transload Logistics Inc. - Provides shipping container services including transloads, transporting, labeling, warehousing and consulting. Includes details on the services, management, locations and facilities.
  • Navigation Technologies Corporation - Maker of digital maps for vehicular navigation. About the company and their products. Product and services, FAQs, contacts, dealer locator, and contacts are featured.
  • Quixote Corporation - Holding company for Energy Absorption Systems, Inc. and the TranSafe Corporation, which manufactures highway safety products and services. Includes links to individual company sites, careers and investor relations. (NASDAQ: QUIX)
  • SDAGlobal.com - Provider of small parcel Next Flight Out (NFO) delivery and air cargo services worldwide. Features toll-free number, overview of order requirements and emergency cargo services.
  • TTI - Transportation Technologies Industries - Maker of parts, subassemblies and component systems for medium/heavy-duty trucks, transport buses, off-highway vehicles, construction and agricultural equipment. Includes overview of affiliate companies, management, profile, awards, and contacts.
  • TTX Co. - Provides railcars and related freight car management services to the North American rail industry. Markets, company overview, FAQs, and links.
  • USFreightways Corporation - Operates a group of regional less-than-truckload general commodities motor carriers in the United States and Canada. (Nasdaq: USFC)

Taxis & Towing

  • Chicago Carriage Cab - Features maroon stretch-cabs with leather interiors. Reservations, rates and services are showcased.
  • Yellow Cab Chicago - Online coupons, rates, become a driver information, wheelchair accessible vans, corporate/charge accounts, feedback, lost and found.
  • City of Chicago: My Car Was Towed - Information portal on how to locate towed vehicles, fees and fines, and non-payment penalties.
  • G P Towing Inc. - Towing service and emergency roadside assistance. Features overview of services for all types of vehicles from motorcycles to big rigs. Coupon and location map.
  • Matthew Towing - Towing services company for the city and northern suburban area. Features rates, FAQs, coverage zone by area code, 24-hour dispatch, and contact details.

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