Originally Posted by ElmhurstNick
If you get into the car and the radio talking heads (780AM is the easiest) say it's a disaster
Note that 780 has traffic reports every ten minutes on the "8". (5:08, 5:18, 5:28, etc).
Also, at the extreme left or right of the AM dial you can usually get traffic reports (I think it's at about 530 and 1610 on the dial, give or take a few clicks).
On line traffic is at
http://www.gcmtravel.com/gcm/maps_chicago.jsp