I met a friend for lunch. We left the restaurant around 2:15. It took my friend an hour and 45 minutes to get from 87th and Kedzie to 52nd and Western. It took me 30 minutes to get from 87th and Kedzie to 99th and California

I294 was horrible as early as 2:00 pm. Snowplows hardly made a dent because the snow was coming down so steadily. On and off ramps were nearly impossible to maneuver. I can only imagine it got worse after my 20 mile drive home, which took 90 minutes compared to the usual 30 minutes.

At 2:15pm my husband was on his way to his next appointment and turned towards home from Kedize and Foster. It is now 7:23pm and he just made it to 79th and the Dan Ryan....He did make a pit stop at Burger King at 31st and Ashland :-) to give himself a break! SO, he may be home by 9pm...will keep you posted!

I am so thankful I had the day off. But I am leaving for work at 6 am tommorrow. Traffic should be light, just hoping the streets are not too bad.

My usual 20 minute drive took about an hour and half. Wasn't as bad as many others I spoke with, but nerve wracking all the same!

The good news was that GSU was closed, so I didn't have to make THAT commute for a Friday evening class. The bad news was that my battery was dead. After a ride home from a friend, I shoveled the driveway. Four hours later, after someone put all of the snow right back, I shoveled it again. I fear that he'll be back and I'll have to start over again on the driveway.

My usual 30 minute commute turned into a 3 hour tour! What happened on LaGrange that shut it down at 107th? Added about 45 minutes to my ride home!

It took me 40 minutes to go from flossmoor to homewood. (next town over)...which is a 5 minute drive normally!!!! Longest 5 minute drive every!!!!!

well i left Oakbrook at 3:30pm via 88 @ 4:30pm made it to 294 and ogden. still keeping a fast speed of 5 miles an hours my rear wiper broke ran out of windsheil washer fluid front wipers were iceing up and had to pee. At 5:30 made it to 294 and 95th st. still had to pee. Finally at 6:00pm i got off at 159th st and that was one lane all the way to cicero and i had a older lady(?) in front spinning her tires all the way down 159 and some guy behind me flashing his lights and honking right on my bumper, i still had to pee maybe he had to too, ha ha ha and about 6:30pm finally made the driveway and was greated by my wounderful wife with a hot cup of coffee, oh and I finally peed too.

Must have been an accident on the Lockport bridge because it was closed for quite a while. When we finally started moving my car starting sliding so I honked my horn to alert the driver ahead of me. Luckily, my car stopped before I hit him, but my horn got stuck and would not shut off. Shortly after that my front windshield wipers broke. So I spent the next 2 hours driving with my horn blasting and my window open so I could continually brush the snow off of my front windshield. Thankfully, traffic was only going 2 miles an hour which made the task a little bit easier. I am very grateful that a road rager didn't pull me out of my car and beat the snot out of me. It would have been real hard to defend myself with a frozen arm.

I left work at 4 p.m. I took the 4:08 Metra to the Sibley stop. I got off the train with my car keys in my hand and rushed to my car which was parked in the lot. Once at my car I realized the keys I had in my hand were gone???? I backtracked all of my steps (in the snow) twice, trying to see if they had fallen in the snow. With all the people rushing to their cars, someone had to have seen my keys. Totally devastated, I walked over to catch a nearby bus to my home (but it took the bus 35 minutes to arrive because of the snow). Then it took the bus another 45 minutes to get to my home. I rushed in the piling snow to my house to grab my spear keys and then take the bus back to the train station. I had to wait for the next bus going back that way for 1 and a half hours (I was frozen and cold). The bus got so far then had to detour because the police had the streets blocked off for salt trucks. I had to get off that bus because it was no longer going my way. I ran around in the middle of the streets in the snowy blizzard trying to figure out how I was going to get back to the train station for my car. I finally asked a police officer if buses were going a different route that would get my back to the train station. Finally I found a bus that was suppose to take me back that way, with in turn actually took me further out of the way. I finally had to take another Metra train (which took 45 minutes to get to me) back to the train stop I needed in order to get my car.

Well it was a beautiful day for a wedding!!! Yes? I said wedding. My brother-in-law was getting married today at four o clock in Willowbrook. We left Tinley Park at 2:30 hoping to be in time for the 4:00 service. We arrived safely an hour later, dealing with ice stuck to the windshields, coyotes running in front of us and streets that haven't been plowed. We beat the bride and groom!!! The bride was two hours late and the groom one hour, We finally managed to all get there safely and enjoyed a beautiful ceremony with family surrounding the future bride and groom! We will definitely remember their wedding day! Love you Bob & Char!

I work in Hazel Crest out by South Sub Hospital and the streets were not plowed, coming home on 183rd up to Pulaski then Pulaski to 159th, it was not plowed. I finally arrived home off 143rd near Riveriera CC over 1 hour later, it was horrible, a least all drivers were going very slowly.

No horror stories for me, and that's a good thing LOL.

My usual 25 minute commute took about 50 minutes. I was able to save time by staying off main streets but once I hit 71st St (Chicago) I had to get on to Kedzie which was hosed until you got past the 79th St/SW Highway intersection. Stayed on Kedzie to 91st St as I was close to home, plus Kedzie was becoming a nightmare again(backed up from 95th almost to 91st St).

BTW, I have an AWD vehicle which helped, not too much tire spinning/sliding from cars around me. It was good to see most knew how to handle the snow. Didn't see a single accident!

It was horrible...it took me over 1 minute for my commute tonight...I had to avoid the puddles from the wet dogs while I walked from my computer room to the living room...Oh yes..I picked the right day to work at home on Friday

I usually start checking my commute time on traffic.com about 30 min before I leave work. I started checking it a little earlier around 3pm, then 4pm, travel time was over 3 hours on main route and my alternative route from Rolling Meadows. 3hr 25 min drive time. Normally 45 minutes.

I thought, oh boy, this is going to stink! Then I remembered I was working from home today! I am lucky to be a part of my companies disaster relief team and have a laptop that allows me to work from anywhere there is internet service. When weather is severe we are told to work from home. We do have to cover a little more time than others as they will usually let traveling employees leave early to get a head start, but totally worth it.

I feel bad for all of you that had to commute in the weather yesterday and hope everyone made it safe!

My Company decided to close the office early at 3:30pm. An hour earlier than I usually go home. A typical commute is 35-40 minutes. I got on the Tri State at Cermak Road heading south. A nightmare already. Everyone was at a complete stop behind three snow plows that could not move because of the cars stopped ahead of them. We finally started moving 5 miles an hour most of the way home. Around 87th Street an impatient motorist in a SUV decided they could ride the shoulder at about 40 MPH and shot snow onto all the cars. Thanks buddy! 2 hours and 15 minutes later I got to the Cicero Avenue exit. I was so glad to be almost home. Too my surprise, the ramp was at a dead stop becuse Cicero Avenue was not moving. Add another 20 minutes and I was home. Yippee!

I left orland at 3:20 and had difficulty just getting up the hill next to the primary care center. The rest of my trip to Homer wasn't much better. It was as if none of the roads had been plowed. The rest of my trip on 159th was bumper to bumper and extremely hazardous to stop and try to go again. Well, and hour later, I finally made it home to Homer Glen.

A normal 20 min commute turned into an hour, but the usual minute it takes me to get up the driveway turned into an hour of shoveling and pouring salt. After all that I managed to work my way up and into the garage.

I left the Loop (Chicago) at 230pm. Took me til 4pm to get to 95th street via the Ryan. Continued down 57 to I-80 took me til 530 til I could get off at Harlem. Took the side streets and didn't get back into New Lenox til 630pm. A total of 4 hours which normally takes me 45 minutes. Was a much worse drive than the Blizzard of 2011 in February

I get off work in the historic Prairie District at 5pm, and wait for the route 62 bus at 18th and State to take me to the Halted orange line so that I could take to train to Pulaski, where my car was parked. Still waiting for the bus at 5:30, I texted the number that tells you when the next one would be arriving. It told me 15 minutes. 5:45 comes around and no bus. Finally, at 6:10, after waiting an hour in 22 degree weather and losing all feeling in my toes and fingers, a 62 bus comes - and it says "Not In Service"! ..... And then my phone died. I was so cold and upset that I bursted into tears. After calming myself down I walked to a nearby pizzeria to defrost and while looking out the window, saw another 62 bus pass by, also not in service. After 20-30 min, I finally had feeling in my toes again, and hailed a cab that took me all the way to Pulaski. I couldn't handle the strain of waiting in that freezing mess for a bus or train again. Thankfully, the driver was very kind and stopped the timer a block early AND took me right up to my car. It took AGES to drive down Cicero to Oak Lawn as the road was not plowed, at least not recently, and several cars were stalled and blocking traffic. I finally made it home at 9:05 pm, a commute that on a normal day, even during rush hour, takes me one hour to an hour and a half tops!

These are all really riveting stories. January in the Midwest. Such a total shock and completely unexpected that there would be a snow storm and long commutes. Absolute shocker.

At 4pm my husband called to tell me he was leaving the city (Belmont & Ashland area). At 7:30 he called me to tell me he just got on I57 and was about to run out of gas. He finally got home at 9pm.

Poor Ted, all of this snow meant no one was giving him any attention.

My one commuting complaint from yesterday is the Dan Ryan. at 9:30 p.m. last night, after the snow had stopped, there were easily three inches of snow in the two right lanes heading south. So everyone drove in the left two, until those of us unlucky enough to have to take I-57 needed to move over to the right. I can understand not being able to plow during the main rush, but at 9:30 at night, when everyone's leaving those two lanes open because they're snowed over, I think it'd be a good time to plow.
So far I've heard nothing but good things about the Orland streets from last night on to this morning.

My trip from Mokena down Wolf Rd took an hour -left at 4pm. 187th down to Laraway. My wipers on my new car were so caked with ice that the right one was like a broken wing it was sticking out so far, I call it the claw, because there were 3 talons of ice protruding. I couldn't stop to remove it. even though we moved about 5 mph I still couldn't see out the windshield that good. 5pm- I'm finally at the Walgreens at Laraway and Wolf, I got out and took a pic of the crazy wiper, and busted all the ice off both of them so I could make it down to 80th to my neighborhood. there had to be at least 8 inches of snow in that parking lot. At the intersection of 45 and Laraway (which had not been plowed) there were several icy spots, that must have been under the snow. my AWD vehicle had trouble gripping the snow. and once through the intersection it appeared that there was really only 1 driveable lane and I wasn't in it! there was so much snow that there was no longer any eastbound lane.. luckily about a half mile ahead 2 tandem snowplows were coming toward me to help clear the road, too bad I was on the wrong side and going the wrong direction. once I got closer to them the road opened up a bit thanks to the trees in that area that blocked the snow from blowing, but the people behind me might not have been so lucky with the oncoming plows :)!! thankfully arrived home at 5:30pm!! my normal commute is 12 minutes. ;{

3 hrs downtown to Midlothian at 5:30PM. Luckily I had the presence of mind to stop for a nice tall hot chocolate and snacks for the ride home.

I have been at 26th and California all week as a juror. Exited the garage at 2:55pm. My GPS told me I should be arriving at 3:43 pm. I thought I would be lucky to see home by 4:30 pm. Passed many stuck cars on the way to I-55. I-55 was bumper to bumper. Moved at a steady pace of 15 miles per hour. It got slower as I approached LaGrange Road. About four cars ahead of us I could see a camaro that had lost control and was now turned facing us on the left. The car behind had tried to go around that car and had slid almost into the guard rail on the right. A pickup truck carefully maneuvered around both cars making a S-shaped trail. The car ahead of me very carefully did the same. I followed. Both drivers of the disabled cars just looked at us as we passed by. Safely off the ramp we were now in a battle for a place on LaGrange Road. A nice man in a white truck let me in. Slowly moved down LaGrange Road. Could see flashing lights and realized traffic was stopped past 95th Street. Turned east on 95th Street. It was tough driving because no one was on the road. This the first time I got a little nervous. Snow was coming down heavy now. At a stop light I got out and cleared the windows front and back. Made it to Harlem and turn right. Arrived at Dunkin Donuts. Used bathroom and spoke with owner. Gave me a free hot tea and told me to be careful. That was really nice. Arrived home at 5:55 pm.. Sent out an email to cancel the Girls Night Out.

I don't know if people know who plows what streets. And I am 100% sure that these streets were a nightmare. These are plowed by County and State. Some of these roads are Orland Park, Orland Hills, and Tinley Park.
1. Oak Forest Ave (Ridgeland to 167 St)
2. Ridgeland Ave (between Oak Forest Ave & Route 30)
3. 80 Ave. (between 159 St. & 183 St)
4. 84 Ave.
5. 167 St (East of Harlem Ave).
6. 171 St (West of Harlem Av to LaGrange (Rte 45))
7. 175 St (East of Oak Park Ave to Central Ave)
8. 179 St (West of 94th Ave to Route 45)
9. 183 St (Harlem West to LaGrange)
10. 94th Ave (171st St. to 159th St.)
11. Lagrange (IDOT)
12. 159th (IDOT)