Planning trip/vacation in Chicago - Help/Advice on hotels, etc

[TheUser]

A friend and I are going to be traveling to the Chicago, IL area in the near future. We're going to be visiting the six flags, the sears tower, a couple museums and what not, and want to see lake Michigan. We plan 2 days for sight-seeing and 1 day for six flags.

We're having problems find a good, inexpensive hotel that's near the places we want to visit. I suppose we'd want to be as close to downtown Chicago as possible, correct? We plan to use public transportation (buses, etc) to get around to the various places.

Can anyone refer/recommend a decent hotel in the Chicago area for $50-100? We'd actually like to keep it as far below $100 a night as possible, but also want a decent hotel w/ free parking and in a decent area where we don't have to drive half an hour to get to a bus station or whatever.

Any other advice on a Chicago trip would be appreciated.

 

[WildEagle]

Hotels

Hey, there are two hotels right on I-94 right next to Six Flags. A Holiday Inn and The Hampton Inn. I don't know pricing. You will have to go to hotels.com or something. Have a fun trip

 

[WildEagle]

Parts

I noticed you are looking for some parts for your Mustang. Go here http://www.encoremustang.com/pages/1/index.htm for used Fox body parts. He's pretty busy but he maybe able to find the parts and ship them to you. I don't think you want to stop by his shop in New Lenox during your trip and deal with the EVIL traffic. Good luck

 

[zincyellow03]

Try some of the hotel around rosemont. It's next to chicago. 10 from airport, maybe 45 to an hour from six flags, and you can take the train from it to downtown chicago. By car it take about 30 to 45 mins in rushhour but 15 to 20 mins the rest of the time.

 

[tack]

When I stayed in Chicago I stayed at a redroof inn, it was in downtown chicago I believe and it was really nice. That was about 4 years ago or so but if I go back, I'll probably try to find that hotel again.

 

[NawTee99]

Those attractions are a little far from each other. In Itasca there is a Holiday Inn its like a 1/4 mile to the train and a 15 minute ride to Chicago, but to get a to Great America your gonna hve to take a cab or something.......Good Luck and Have fun!

 

[1ba96gt]

A friend and I are going to be traveling to the Chicago, IL area in the near future. We're going to be visiting the six flags, the sears tower, a couple museums and what not, and want to see lake Michigan. We plan 2 days for sight-seeing and 1 day for six flags.

We're having problems find a good, inexpensive hotel that's near the places we want to visit. I suppose we'd want to be as close to downtown Chicago as possible, correct? We plan to use public transportation (buses, etc) to get around to the various places.

Can anyone refer/recommend a decent hotel in the Chicago area for $50-100? We'd actually like to keep it as far below $100 a night as possible, but also want a decent hotel w/ free parking and in a decent area where we don't have to drive half an hour to get to a bus station or whatever.

Any other advice on a Chicago trip would be appreciated.

Stay away from the field musuem as its quite boring. I'd go to the aquarium or Art musuem. You'll have much better luck using taxi's rather than buses. for a hotel less than a $100 a nite is almost non existent. Good luck and hope you have a good time. Try to go while the Taste of Chicago is still going thats a lot of fun.