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No electric no wifi no showers nada!
By user-5796869... on 2017-10-23.
Just a big lot filled with trucks and busses. $35 to park but that's it! No features at all. Don't know who did this profile but he screwed up big.
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Best place for the location
By user-5108184... on 2017-10-23.
Stayed here 3 nights while visiting some sights and family. Only place close to Chicago where you can safely park a big rig. Security was friendly and patrolled all the time. Lots of trucks, but no different than staying at a Flying J, rest area or Walmart. Lots of trains go by but we are used to that as well. Close to bike trails, and public transportation. 20 min. walk to car rental as well. We will stay here again if we come back with the RV.
Stayed: 10/18/2016 - 10/21/2016
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Urban Boondocking in Chicago
By user-5409141... on 2017-10-23.
The up side this is really close to Chicago and it reasonably safe and cheap. $35/night credit cards accepted ($80/night for special events) No set check in or out. No limits on generator usage. Good satellite and over the reception.
The down side is this is a busy noisy 24 hour trucking yard next to a busy rail line and highway. Their are no utilities, facilities or wifi so you really have to be self contained.
Bottom line, we had a great time and would stay again. We stayed in a a 34' motorhome.
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Best place for the location
By user-5108184... on 2017-10-23.
Stayed here 3 nights while visiting some sights and family. Only place close to Chicago where you can safely park a big rig. Security was friendly and patrolled all the time. Lots of trucks, but no different than staying at a Flying J, rest area or Walmart. Lots of trains go by but we are used to that as well. Close to bike trails, and public transportation. 20 min. walk to car rental as well. We will stay here again if we come back with the RV.
Stayed: 10/18/2016 - 10/21/2016
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Convenient.
By user-5230348... on 2017-10-23.
No hookups. Asphalt parking lot shared with trucks. Grassy area by road for dogs. Very clean bathrooms, no showers. Walk to subway to go anywhere in Chicago or call taxi or uber who will pick you up at your rig. Just like being at a Wal-Mart. Very nice attendants. $35 for 24 hours.
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Close downtown and save
By user-6631538... on 2017-10-23.
Nothing romantic, but very OK if you want to visit Chicago downtown. It is a parking lot with lot of trucks. At night there is no noise. We felt Save. And it is 10 minutes ride from downtown
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Charged for both truck and trailer
By user-5804434... on 2018-03-14.
Stayed 2017-11-03 to 2017-11-04
We decided to park at the McCormick Place Lot B for our Chicago stay. We made our on-line reservations and followed everyone’s advice for getting into the lot…no problem! It’s very easy to get to and parked. However, the problem came at the entrance station when the gate attendant called his boss and charged us an extra $23 per day. Evidently, you are required to pay separately for your RV and your tow vehicle – therefore instead of the $35 per day we already paid with our reservation, we ended up paying an additional $23 per day at the gate. That is a grand total of $58 per day to boondock in parking lot between an expressway and a busy set of railroad tracks.
Groggy and dazed from our drive into the city and not wanting to forfeit the $35 per day we already paid, I proffered my credit card to pay the difference. Once we got parked in our assigned spot and I had time to think through the gate interaction, I started to get angry. After talking to some other RVers in the lot (Class A motorhomes with toads who paid only the $35), I was pretty hot and decided to make a phone call and ask some questions. After getting the run-around from the guy on the phone, I went to the office to talk to the manager.
Interrupting five employees from sitting on their butts and thumbing their cell phones, I stated my case and wanted to know if there was a mistake? No, there was not a mistake. Evidently, the policy is that a tow vehicle and trailer are counted as two separate vehicles and therefore require two charges. I mentioned that everyone we’ve ever talked to have only paid one fee for an RV (regardless of tow vehicle or toad). They responded that there must have been a mistake by the cashier at the gate. Some more back-and-forth with the Head Clown and I eventually gave up and I walked out unsatisfied and angry. We planned on adding days to the back-end of our reservation, but won’t now…we’ll move to a county park a little further out and except the commute.
Everyone else has already discussed the positives of this location and they are all true. We had no problem finding a level spot to park and it is an easy walk to the Metra Station at McCormick Place. Although, while this is a wonderfully convenient place to stay during your visit to Chicago (two Metra stops to the Museum Campus stop and three to Millennium Park), I’m not sure the $58 per night cost is worth it. May be we were just super-unlucky. Maybe they changed their policy the day we arrived. Maybe we just got ripped off…but this was our experience.
Bottom line: If you get the right cashier at the gate and they only charge the $35, then it’s a great place to stay when visiting Chicago. But, if you don’t get lucky and get the guys we had, then I’m not sure $58 per night is worth the convenience...
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Camp in Chicago !
By user-5060997... on 2019-08-09.
Park the camper here, and bicycle into town and see the sights.