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T5 is the easiest place to meet someone at ORD. Just park in the international T5 parking lot and walk inside the terminal. Go downstairs to arrivals and they will exit either through the A or B doors. Both sets of doors are in the same area, look at the arrival time and add about 30 minutes for bags and customs. Take I-190 to ORD and exit at Bessie Coleman drive and follow the signs.
This is all good advice. When you get to ORD watch for the signs for International and/or T5 parking (can't remember how its marked). You don't want either long-term or main parking, T5 uses a separate lot. This is a surface lot, and it is fairly inexpensive for the first hour, $3.00, I believe. You'll enter the terminal at the ticketing level. Take the escalator downstairs and there is a monitor that says which doors (A or B) will be used for which flight. UA almost always comes out the left hand doors and AA the right, but not always. There are also cameras that show people as they're walking out, but I don't think they've been working recently. As stated in a later post, you won't be able to get to the actual connection desk, but everyone has to come out of either door A or door B, so it isn't very hard. There are seats sort of behind the escalators if you're early.