$6.60 for a two axle vehicle? Yowza! I wonder how much profit Macquarie and Cintra are making on the 99 year lease thanks to the shortsightedness of the city of Chicago. $1,800,000,000 was sent to the city. How much of that money will be left? Doesn't matter - by the time that bill comes due, none of the politicians who were responsible for it will be around. On the plus side, their toll transponder accepted my NC Quick Pass. [Review 20622 overall - 169 in Illinois - 1603 of 2023.] read more

Chicago Skyway - Chicago Skyway - Transportation Near Me - Chicago, Illinois

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Never ever ever should we have a Toll road in the United States of America. Our taxes are high enough to keep Roads repaired . Extortion is the word. We are held hostage to pay a toll or find another route. Home of the free. Come on never ever should their be a Toll road. Ever in the United States. Shameful to have one and insults the American people. I don't like Toll roads, can you tell. read more

A full hour to go through the toll plaza near Horseshoe Casino from the Illinois side after the White Sox game (which was depressing enough!) Not a single manned booth and the EZ Pass lanes were just as backed up because drivers have to come to a complete stop, wait for the transponder to connect and the gate to open. The cash/credit lanes are a joke. Worst toll plaza in the whole system!!! read more

03/24/21 What a racket. I was forced to take this coming and going to Horseshoe Casino on Wednesday. I tried to avoid it by mapping a different route but every time I tried it the navigation system redirected me back onto the skyway. I resent having to pay $5.80 for using it for the short stint crossing from Chicago into Indiana & back to Chicago. Even though the navigation kept redirecting me back onto the bridge it really made the most sense seeing as the exit at the end of the bridge takes you directly to Horseshoe Casino. I just gave it another star because it is well maintained Funny I found this photo on Facebook by Bart Shore taken from his unique perspective in a helicopter today 03/26/21 Info Courtesy of Don Berry Canadian consortium buys Chicago Skyway lease rights for $2.8 billion By Sun-Times staff on June 24, 2016 9:13 am A decade after investors gave the city more than $1.8 billion to lease the Chicago Skyway for 99 years, the rights to run the privatized highway and collect tolls have been sold for $1 billion more than the original price. read more

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$5.80 for the first toll. The second toll is $2.80. The last extortion toll is $1.10. It's always feels like $9.70 gamble hoping that the Skyway is actually faster than taking 94 without the tolls. The roads aren't that great and the right lane in sections is all patched, pot holed and bump too. What do they use all of the money they collect and extort from us then? We picked a slow moving lane at the second toll, the other 4 cash and credit lane are pass 2-3 cars for every one in our lane. It's not manned for the second toll either. The machine in our lane is slow and the other 4 seem to be manned, what bad luck. It smells like Gary, Indiana is close after the second toll. Blech. Lots of regularly interview seamed cement sections along this second tollway. We don't have tolls in Michigan, yet our roads are about the same as sections of the tollway here on the skyway. read more

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The road works. You can drive on it. Those are the only positives. I've been stuck here in line to pay a huge toll... for going on 10 minutes. Plenty long enough to Yelp. Ugh. read more

Chicago Skyway - Going on 9 minutes... stuck here! - Transportation Near Me - Chicago, Illinois

I highly despise The Chicago Skyway for various reasons. I barely go on the Skyway because there's no reason for me to use it. The Skyway is owned by a private company. Mainly I'm upset with how expensive it is to drive down it ESPECIALLY if you're in the big trucks. I thought the 390 was expensive but this takes the cake. The McDonald's is gone too but that's their fault but not the highways. They could put in a Wendy's or a Culver's to maybe give some people coming. There's tons of great views. What an architectural masterpiece this place is! You'll also see : wetlands, smoggy polluting buildings, neglected neighborhoods, south shore line. read more

Chicago Skyway - Transportation Near Me - Chicago, Illinois

Easy Peasy! I go back and forth, forth and back from Michigan to Wisconsin all the time! The Chicago Skyway saves me time and money. The skyway has been around for decades and I've watched it change over the years. Best move to date was get rid of the Mickey D's! That solely cleared up the chaos at this vital crossing. Not sure why this is rated so low. I wouldn't cut around any other way period! The skyway cuts down the brutal truck traffic that engulfs if you take the freeway I-94. No thanks! Plus if you have an EZ pass then ALL tolls are just half the cost. That's a no brainer! Long live the Chicago Skyway! read more

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Pricey $5.30 per car but it's hassle free easy in and out. See pic for deets. Smooth drive. Privately owned but does make life easier and your travel time is on point! read more

The Chicago Skyway Bridge is the answer to a question no one ever should have asked, but what an amazing answer it is. Part journey and part destination the 7.8 mile long Skyway is just the ticket to get out of Chicago heading east. You pay a modest sum for the possibility of shaving 20 minutes off your drive and you're way up here looking out over all of that (and there's quite a lot of it from this vantage point.) Probably better as a passenger than pilot but after a couple dozen trips you get an idea when you can rubber neck and when you need to pay attention. Not sure how tall the super structure is but with a 1/2 mile of deck rising 125' above the Calumet River the High Bridge dominates the landscape. It needs to be viewed from above and below to take it all in; the bridge towers over everything and is just. so. cool! read more

I was going through the tollway around 1:00 pm and the bar did not open. I told the toll employee that I have automatic replenishment and did not have any issues going through the other tolls. I even showed her my account and it had plenty of money to get through the tolls. She got an attitude and said something negative. But I had to get to work and didn't have time so I handed her my credit card. I explained again that the card had already replenished and I shouldn't have to double pay and she got nasty and told me she didn't care. I then actually her name and she refused so I said I would send her picture in to her company identify her for the complaint. She immediately got upset, shut the window and refused to give me back my credit card! Traffic was piling up behind me. People were getting out of their cars and threatening me! Her supervisor came over, the employee kept referring to her as Ms. Linda. She asked what was going on. She asked me to delete the picture and they would give me my credit card back. I explained to her that she was an employee working in the public and I as a citizen had the right. This went on for around 15 -20 more minutes! My toll had been paid and they basically stole my credit card. I was not moving without my credit card as I had done nothing wrong. The employee eventually left and another employee replaced her and I was finally given my credit card back. I left without further incident. It's already ridiculous how the readers don't work at times when your account is good but to have an employee treat me badly and then "punish" me by taking my credit card? I am beyond words. I spend so much money every week using the tollway. I shouldn't have been treated this way. read more

$5.00 whether you are headed to or from the city. If you have E-Z pass then it's a cinch to breeze through. Whichever direction you are going you head up a long hill to the bridge deck. Upon your approach you can see in the distance the Willis tower which was formerly known as the Sears tower. Very nice architecture which is what Chicago is known for. That's about all I can say for it. I was the passenger on this journey which enabled me to see a lot more as well as check in. Course you have to pay if you want to enter or exit a major city. Manhattan by far is worse. It makes me glad to go through my city's Fort Pitt tunnel for free and upon exiting get a beautiful view of Pittsburgh. read more

Chicago Skyway - This is it - Transportation Near Me - Chicago, Illinois

This is so confusing. Cars approach the skyway at maximum speed and little patience. Make sure to have the lane your pulling into correct and your toll of $5.60 ready. Everyone is in a hurry. read more

I have an EZ-Pass and occasionally use the Skyway maybe twice a year. Recently I found it remarkable how the ride/pavement is so smooth & well maintained. Also found it remarkable how little traffic was on it. Then I looked at my EZ-Pass account: A whopping $5.30 toll! (It just rose to $5.60 as of 1/1/20.) If you're in a hurry, require a smooth ride, and/or money is no object, take the Skyway by all means. Five stars for quality of the ride, 1 star for the cost. That averages out to my 3 stars. read more

I'd give it no stars if I could! Suppose to save you time, but every time you try to use the ezpass/ipass coming back into Chicago from Indiana it NEVER picks up your pass. And you waste time having to run your Ccd. Not worth the head ache! read more

Chicago Skyway - Not just our lane, not reading everyone's ezpass/ipass. - Transportation Near Me - Chicago, Illinois

Even with the seemingly endless construction and improvements this highway is still way faster and a more direct route to The City than 80/94. Traffic is usually light, mostly commuters too and from the city, there's not too many big semis to worry about either. Police doesn't have too much of a presence here (unless I've just been lucky), I usually only see them at the toll plaza or by the Stoney Island exit ramp. The only part about the skyway that can be a bit more efficient is the toll plaza, ht not just Chang it to an "Open Road Tolling" system... The plaza almost always has some a$$hole who can't read and tries to pay cash or credit in a CLEARLY labeled "IPASS ONLY" lane. All in all, it's a pretty great highway, quick city access and tolls are decent, save for the aberrant A-hole who can't read. read more

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I live in Holland Mich and go to Chicago on occasion, probably several times each year. I always take the Skyway, more for sentimental reasons than anything else , but after the last time , NEVER EVER again will I be taking that horrible tollway again. The last time I took that road was later in the fall of 2022. The roads were OK at best, a lot of litter scattered around, in general messy. The cost of the tolls was out of sight high and the toll booth workers were down right rude. it was raining on this day and as we were leaving the third toll booth , we started to pull forward after the arm was lifted to let us exit the booth, when all of a sudden the arm dropped on the front corner of our car fender, bounced up and came back down a second time. it was raining quite hard at the time so we waited until the attendant raised the arm and we pulled over to see if there was any damage. Because of the rain we didn't couldn't see much and we were getting quite wet so we got back into our car and drove into Chicago. Later that day we drove home. The following morning I went out and checked the car over and found there was a small dent in the fender exactly were the arm had hit the car. We contacted the Chicago Skyway customer service. We did everything they asked us to do, filled out reports, talked to several people at the Skyway collected estimates and submitted pictures. Then we waited and waited and waited. on the few occasions we called we were treated as if we did something wrong. We finally pushed for an answer and were told that the claim was denied because their pictures and video clearly showed that the dent was in the car before the arm came down on the fender. We knew that was not true so we asked for their pictures and video so we could see for ourselves. We were told that our request needed to be reviewed by their legal department. We made several more calls to their customer service trying to make contact with the manager. We were told so many different stories, we were told he was in meetings, out for the day, won't be back for 2 weeks , etc etc. wWe had one customer service person tell us laughingly that this happens all the time, especially when it rains, that is why they put childrens swimming noodles on the arms to help protect cars from too much damage. We finally after weeks of trying , we got to talk to the manager. He promised he would review the video and get back with us. Surprise surprise, he called us back and said that he reviewed the tape and was officially denying the claim because he could clearly see that there was NO dent in the fender before it was hit by the arm ant there was NO dent as we drove out after the arm hit the car. We asked for the video and was told he would send it but never did. This place is a joke, very very unprofessional. The dent is fixed, and I will never use this road again. At the extremely high cost of using their road, I will recoup my losses in less than a year. read more

Today I am reviewing a road. Technically a bridge. Even more technically The Chicago Skyway Toll Bridge System. For ease of writing and reading, I'll just call it 'The Skyway' from here on out, cool? The Skyway is not a bad road. In fact, right before it was sold to a foreign investment group in late 2004, the taxpayers of Chicago were good enough to spring $250 Million for a tremendous facelift to the road and to the bridge itself (commonly known as the "High Bridge"). For those people wishing to travel, by car, between northwestern Indiana and Chicago, The Skyway is a nice 'shortcut' which allows the user to bypass the perpetually clogged and/or under-construction Borman, Bishop Ford & Dan Ryan freeways. It runs from the Indiana/Illinois state line where it becomes the Indiana Toll Road (coincidentally ALSO owned by the aforementioned foreign investment group) to the Dan Ryan expressway. The traffic is usually pretty manageable and providing you're not blowing the doors off your fellow travelers or driving like a complete @$$, the police will likely not give you any trouble. The reason I can only give The Skyway three stars, is because... well... there is some debate, among those who are in-the-know about such things, about who actually OWNS The Skyway. Yes, it is owned by the Skyway Concession Company or 'SCC', a joint venture between an Australian and a Spanish investment group, but there is some curiosity regarding who owns the SCC. Without getting political or into unnecessary detail here, the short of it is that The Skyway isn't owned by the people of the City of Chicago, who built and upgraded the road, it is owned by an investment group from overseas for the next 93 years or so. An investment group who pockets all those tolls we pay to drive on The Skyway ($3.50 for a passenger car as of Spring 2011), and will do so until long after you and I expire. I'll let you decide for yourself whether that's a good deal for us Chicagoans or not. The three highlighted stars above are for the convenience of the road itself and for all the money we paid to have it there from 1958 until 2004. The other two stars were sold, along with the road itself, to "SCC". read more

Chicago Skyway - Transportation Near Me - Chicago, Illinois

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I've only taken the Chicago Skyway a handful of times, because it is almost never worth the money or hassle compared to just keeping on I-94 when traveling to Chicago. Paying more than $5 to save less than10 minutes of driving time never works out for my broke wallet. The toll lanes are inefficient and often take longer to pay the tolls and get to the city than it would have to just stay on I-94 to begin with. The view can be nice, but it's not THAT nice. And since I-90 and I-94 meet up again right before the loop, you're going to be in traffic regardless. read more

The view from the actual (gigantic, uber impressive) bridge is pretty amaze from several vantage points. Costly and rundown amenities/ features knock the Skyway down a few notches. read more

Not being a Chicago native and hailing from the smaller city of Pittsburgh, I'll do away with the social commentary (we have our own share of problems) for if any city has a grand entrance point, it is Chicago, and that grand entrance point is the Skyway. When I nervously visited Chicago with friends months ago to attend a small music festival, we broke this threshold in the twilight hours, the optimal time for the Skyway's neon letters to act as a beacon to us after a seemingly eternal drive of 9 hours. Inside a Tardis-like booth, a smiling, curly-haired operator took our money, giggling gleefully as she chatted with someone on Skype. That someone would be so pleasant in what must be a rather unpleasant job during most unpleasant hours was inspiring and comforting. It reminded me that even in massive cities, people are still people and strive for happiness regardless of their circumstances. Once weary, we became renewed through sheer awe, marveling briefly at this Rainbow Bridge upon arrival and during our departure at sunrise a day later. Yes, Chicago is plagued by neo-liberalism and all the accursed weeds that sprout from it (as reviewers John S. and P.W. eloquently put it), but damn it if we didn't feel as if we had "arrived" in some sense once we approached and passed the Skyway. We didn't feel powerful, but rather, we felt its power, Her power, Chi-Town's power, be it for good or for ill. Humbled we were. read more

Why are people always talking about the "great view" from the skyway? You're driving way too fast to actually look at the scenery, and if you're my height, you can't see much over the sides, anyhow. The oasis here is frightening. You have to pull over crazy fast, basically turning and coming to a stop from full speed. That's only slightly less terrifying than the bathrooms. I'd pee anywhere but here. If my hair was on fire and the only water available to put it out was water from the sink here, I'd probably stop for a moment and think about whether I really wanted to touch the faucet handle. Even my husband, a manly man who is pretty manly, got grossed out by the toilets and didn't want to use them. As far as the whole "saving time" thing, that may have been true at one time, but I think it no longer applies. This is because once you pay your $3.50 toll and cross it, there's another $1.50 toll on the Indiana side, and this toll is automated. It isn't a basket-style automated toll, as commonly seen in the Land of Lincoln. It's more like an arcade-style token changing kind of machine. It takes credit cards and can give change for cash, which is nice, but it's also really slow and causes a long backup at the toll area. If you save 10 minutes by taking the Skyway, you spend 8 sitting at the Indiana toll. I don't think saving 2 minutes is worth an extra $4 in tolls. I think this is something to do once, for the experience and to say you've been on the highest road in Illinois. Additional visits should be reserved for people who need motivation to clean their bathrooms at home. read more

I had an awful experience on the Skyway yesterday (August 1, 2019). Coming into Chicago, the tollbooth at the end of the Skyway was backed up for about 20 minutes. When I finally got to a tollbooth, the reader could not read my I-Pass. Of course, there was no attendant there to help. I pressed the "help" button repeatedly. After about 5 minutes, a voice belatedly came on that advised me to remove my I-Pass device from my vehicle and place it on a bracket in the tollbooth, so it could be read vertically at a distance of two inches. After several failed attempts, that finally worked. There were other "equipment failures" at other tollbooths, and that apparently is what caused the 20 minute delay. For this, I paid a $5 toll? Skip the Skyway and take 94 into the city. The folks that bought the Skyway from the city a couple of years ago need to maintain what they bought. My view is: no maintenance -- no tolls! read more

What a huge dump. This toll booth is one big shake down. If there was no toll here it might actually be kind of a nice sight but the fact that they charge $5 to pass thru here is ridiculous. They used to have a McDonald's right here in the middle of the highway but it recently closed down. The McDonalds was actually pretty cool because you could pull in the little parking lot they had & it was very weird once you got out of your car because it was in the middle of the highway but it was a cool experience to go eat inside & just watch all of the cars whiz by. Once they closed that McDonald's there was absolutely nothing cool about this Skyway. The toll booths here are old metal 1950 looking toll booths. The highway is falling apart. In the winter they barely clean the snow & ice off of the road so driving on this must be met with caution. The drive on this road is the only positive about this entire Skyway. There is not a lot of traffic & it does get you places quicker but it is still a big dump. This highway is not something you can avoid by choice but beware it is a rip off. read more

Indiana toll booths are an absolute fucking joke. They don't respond to iPass. They won't take credit cards. But at least no one is working there to lift the gates. read more

Thank you, Chicago Skyway and Indiana Tollway for allowing me access to the nearest place it is legal to go 70mph.

You really have to take the time and SEE...................see the lake to your left (if you are heading east bound). See the Calumet River and the Calumet Harbor (in fact the Chicago Skyway used to be known as the Calumet Skyway). Great time to really SEE and FEEL the Beauty is early in the morning when you can still see the lights on and still experience the early morning light. Industrial might all around (can only imagine what it looked like in it's heyday. The same consortium that operates the Indiana Toll Road (joint-venture between the Australian Macquarie Infrastructure Group and Spanish Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte S.A.) operates the Skyway on a 99 year lease. I wonder if the $1.83 Billion is already spent!!!! Well...........they just got my $3.50. Thanks for the view.................. read more

Avoid at all costs. $10 and 2 hours later from the loop to the toll. One lane for the past 3 weeks!!!

If you are going to charge $5 to use the skyway, FFS, fix you damn I-pass readers! Without fail, multiple lanes are unnecessarily blocked and causing undue waits. read more

The technology still sucks. It's always 'great' to see people waving their iPass' around and cars backing up.... real safe. Thanks Daley for leasing it for $1 Billon for 99 years. Greed will insure the people of Chicago will have a poor experience for many years to come. read more

What a dump!!!! I had to pay $5 to drive on a broken down road!! Never goes this way!!

Five miles before the Chicago City line until you reach Chicago - this road turns into a under construction, poorly marked, Mad-Max, shifting lane MESS... It's not safe (and I drive everywhere)... When someone DIES on this MESS and their family sues the Skyway company for a Billion dollars - I will testify at the trial. This road is a shameful DEATH TRAP. read more

I honestly find it hilarious that I could check in here and also shockd because if people are driving while checking in, that is dangerous but whatever. It's a toll way(one of the more expensive ones but hey, what are ya going to do). You drive on it and it gets you fromhere to there. The end. read more

Only one cash lane open ....probably about 20 cars lineup...taking 15 or more minutes to pay..

The skyway is a great option to get from Chicago to Indiana (or off to Michigan), but the inane toll taking process makes it not worth taking. In multiple cars, with multiple different I-passes I have been told they are "invalid" and "don't work". These ipasses always then work great on all of the tolls on the Indiana toll road. This is a private toll, and should have updated technology to be able to read the i-pass consistently. I am sick of having to roll down my window and wave my ipass above my car. This needs to be updated to an open road tolling system to avoid these problems. Plan on waiting in the insanely long cash line because it is impossible to use an ipass consistently. read more

I have to use the Skyway everyday for work. It is well maintained and almost worth the $5.30 (yes, the rates are always creeping up). What is infuriating is that at any random time their toll booths will not read the I-PASS. I have read other reviews and it seems to be a consistent problem which is not being addressed. I used to either get mad at/make fun of travelers that would be stuck in the tollbooth lanes wondering how they could be so stupid as to not have their transponder ready. Well now I take all those feelings back as I have noticed my I-Pass works just fine both in Indiana and Illinois but strangely enough works only once in a while up on the Sky Bridge. It's 2019, not a clue why they can't get this right. At the rate the tolls are being charged, the system should work almost flawlessly. I guess the technology is in step with the big 1950's "Chicago Skyway Toll Bridge" sign. They need to wake up or they will continue to lose users on this road. read more

Void the skyway rough it's not worth the extra told most but construction the whole road is falling apart

Up to $3.50 now, but still the very best way to escape the clutches of the city on a road trip. Besides, there's a casino at the end!

Way too expensive !!! Great commute! Needs help cleaning snow and ice of the road.

It's pretty but I always feel dirty around it. Not to mention that exiting Chicago costs five dollars..... I mean are those kind of tolls REALLY necessary? read more