Originally Posted by
JBord
Probably snow the last couple of nights. As cheltzel said, there can be lots of lake effect snow there, and it's been snowing in Chicago. There's often year-round construction on parts of I-90 in NW Indiana (not sure right now). Finally, you have toll booths and casino traffic on the weekends.
Haven't been that way in probably a month, but my guess would be it's a little of all of the above. As I said earlier, I'd definitely suggest the southern route, your odds of having a smoother trip are much greater.
Agreed. I have friend who live in the NW Indiana area and have been driving that route off and on for over 25 years. The amount of big rig truck traffic on that route is heavy almost 24 hours a day.
Unless you see some overriding reason to avoid it, I would take the southern route. One reason to avoid it is black ice. I've hit that in central/southern Illinois and in the St Louis area and it can be really treacherous.
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