Traveling in the mid-West and the East coast, better get a GPS. Maps..... Ummm.... though would be nice maintaining a "life skill", with such convoluted signs and assume you are a local, you just cannot get anywhere without a navigator sitting next to you that (1) you need to trust explicitly with the orientation skill, (2) you need 100% concentration to your driving as there are lots of dumb asses driving out there and (3) quick map reading with all the ever expanding roadways and suburbs. So, yes, get a GPS! Street signs with names can be very hard to read or locate in a "hide and seek" fashion as if we have not played enough when we were little kids.
If you are traveling to Chicago area, make sure you have change with you! Not change of clothes but change in coins! Most highways are tolled. Some are stationed with human and some just have a catch basin counting your donations. Exact change please! Here is the kicker, you do not know that until you are almost there with no way to back out or no way to stop to ask for change!!!! Very dumb! Signs were afterthoughts. Good thing I had donated every coin I got back from cashiers in supermarket to Audrey's purse; otherwise, we would have stuck going to the airport from Naperville. We encountered three tolls with only one Manned in the second one! We had enough for the first toll. manned on the second so we had enough change for the 3rd toll. On the way to Naperville from Chicago, every toll was manned. Audrey had a theory how it worked; but I am not sure as all the tolls used to be just coins with no human interaction.
If you were returning a rental car to O'Hare, stop at the O'Hare Oasis (yes, a very huge sign 2 miles before you head in) to fill up! There is no gas station right at the airport; it's about 2 miles the other way after you pass the rental car returns.
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