Lake Shore Drive at Dusk: Chicago, IL

[@warrenhague]

Many days driving to and from work and recreation. Chicago really has one of the most beautiful drives in the world!

[@eugenevalentine5014]

...this brings back great memories of days living at the north end of the Drive...

[@ct0760]

Chicago has some of the best highways when construction is not in the way, I usually like doing inbound 290 to Wacker Drive, connect to LSD northbound, then Circle around at hollywood like you did, then go back thru LSD and wacker to Kennedy north (above and beyond released a new anjunabeach genix mix that works with this, I cant wait to listen to it and drive it, watching your video with it just made me grin) whats funny is even though the speed limit is 40 people usually go 50-70 on this road ^^

[@mikesuzio2566]

ct0760 no when I drove from Wrigley to Union pier it was more like 80-95 mph a bout the same as the auto bon...it was my first time driving in Chicago

[@BeckettSong]

Connecticut's State Highway 9 in the area of downtown Middletown is what I like to call Riverview Drive. BTW, awesome video. I love Chicago. It's a very beautiful city.

[@Freewayjim]

Thank you!

[@sherrim4602]

Excellent, thanks for sharing.

[@Freewayjim]

Thank you!

[@patricialutz2092]

Awesome!I even saw Lake pointe Tower,where my niece now resides! thanks so much for posting, felt like I was along for the ride 😁

[@Freewayjim]

Thank you for the comment and for watching!

[@FreewayBrent]

(Part 2 of 2)... when the waters of Lake Michigan reflect the moonlight to offer a complementary effect, with the Chicago skyline on the other side. Great music, too. This video should be shared with the Chicago media outlets, as well as the local visitor's bureau. Favorited!

[@CALZOLA]

Quietness ,serenity ,sweet bluish color ,cool sound jazz guitar ,your art is at the top ,Freewayjim !

[@gsnman]

I'm so glad I got to visit Chicago this year for the first time! I'd love to move up there someday. Great video, Jim!

[@codsworth3996]

Driving in first world countries is so organized and looks lovely.

[@khagemann7462]

Trust me, this is LIGHT traffic for Chicago.

[@codsworth3996]

@@khagemann7462 Ah, such an old comment of mine. Back when I was still hopeful of life and wasn't about to hang myself. Thank you for giving me a chance to look at my past self. I'd forgotten it.

[@khagemann7462]

@@codsworth3996 hope your doing well, keep going my Freind.

[@tannwich5350]

You should have a Pulitzer prize, for all the experiences you make available to those who cannot have in person, or bring back to those who once had it.

[@Freewayjim]

Thank you for the kind comment and for watching!

[@Uaarkson]

Picking my all-time favorite urban road in the U.S. between FDR and LSD is a tough call. FDR is an blistering rollercoaster ride, and LSD is a gentle merry-go-round. Fantastic video as usual, can't wait for the next one.

[@CaronAplus]

This is so awesome.. great tune.. and my hometown just 60 miles away from Chi

[@Freewayjim]

@1867Phoenix They are both older highways along the edges of the cities' shoreline. I have heard them compared in several discussions and in print regarding early highways.

[@oamost]

Nice record! I'm appreciate your work, it was such a great idea to acomplish it! Have a nice day!

[@TailsPrower88]

I think this is one of your best videos, Freewayjim :) The ones in the dusk have the best music selection, in my opinion. Lake Shore Drive sure is a beautiful ride, I hope I'll be able to go there someday. Cheers from Italy!

[@StukInBuf]

This eastern-waterside-of-the-city driving looks more picturesque than driving on FDR Drive in New York's East Side.

[@mutt1256]

great video five out of five stars abd great music ,also looking forward th Lake ShoreDrive at at night

[@empresslisa6875]

Beautiful city as well

[@JJ-wj6ur]

Just loving it!! 👌👍🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@bukhrin]

Awesome skylines!

[@anthonybryant4944]

Huge

[@CosmoPhotography]

I've been watching the Weather Channel all weekend, and I did a double take when I heard the music in this video. haha just kidding with you, Jim, super video! 6:35 to 6:45 was my favorite part with the wall of towers on the right. If I'm not mistaken, I think Oprah used to live in one of those? Random fact: seeing the John Hancock Tower in this reminded me that there is an out of this world Sunday brunch buffet that takes place on the 95th floor. The BEST meal you will ever eat in your life!

[@Freewayjim]

@Bryant5493 Thanks, yeah Freedom Parkway is probably the closest thing in ATL to LSD, especially the views at the end of it.

[@tannwich5350]

Looks like so many of the best oceanfront boulevards, more like a resort town than a pounding city.

[@Freewayjim]

@RianAlive It's signed as I-494 in the 1960 Rand McNally Road Atlas on the southern part only roughly from I-55 South to 49th Street. I've heard it referred to that by other people in discussions, plus I need to save pace in the comment boxes where I can.

[@TimothyLittle13]

And it starts up north from Hollywood, water on the driving side. Concrete mountains rearing up throwin' shadows...just about 5

[@Freewayjim]

@gsnman Thanks, it is indeed a great city!

[@UnchainTheNight1]

Man, those buildings are just massive. Largest city I've ever been in was St. Louis, which is quite small in comparison.

[@Freewayjim]

@Reiser86 Thank you!, stay tuned for the next two, I think they are "visually" better :)

[@aliesander]

Thanks, Always perfect. This video makes me remember of my only stay in chicago as exhibitor at Mc Cormick place in 1993! For a french citizen , I have impressed by the power of US worker unions there. Behaviors of worker unions that would never happen in Europe despite Europe may be known for some union power - but really peanuts compared to Mc Cormick union power.! US is really a contry of constrasts.

[@Freewayjim]

@Dhunt7877 Thanks, I was pretty impressed with Chicago too, especially at night as you'll see in the next four videos.

[@Freewayjim]

@Freewayjim You could make a case that Lake Shore is comparable to NYC's West side Highway as well, which is more of a boulevard these days.

[@UsonianAC]

@jcrockett001 Yes, Prior to November of 1996, Soldier Field was in the median of LSD. The current section of LSD around Soldier Field features southbound and northbound lanes running west of Soldier Field; prior to the 1996 reconstruction, the northbound lanes of LSD ran east of Soldier Field while the southbound lanes ran west of Soldier field.

[@ronichadwick3426]

Another helpful video. Thanks! Love! Roni

[@Freewayjim]

You are very welcome!

[@Freewayjim]

@CosmoPhotography LOL, yeah that kind of is TWC music. Wow, 95th Floor Brunch, now that would be cool!

[@Freewayjim]

@TailsPrower88 Thank you very much!

[@Freewayjim]

@LIRR175 I like to change things up on the non-freeway videos.

[@Freewayjim]

@Foomba Thank you much!

[@Freewayjim]

@SuperBar2008 Thank you!

[@Freewayjim]

@ScrewdUPClickV2 Thank you!

[@MikeAW2010]

The music blots out all the horns and sirens in the background ;)

[@StukInBuf]

I wonder... if anyone were to go to a Cubs game from the LSD, what would be the closest turnoff?

[@briansivley2001]

Depends on which way your coming from. If you're coming from the Northside than get off at Irving Park and go west till you get to Sheffield and turn South until you get to Wrigley Field. But if you are coming from the Southside than get off at Belmont and as with Irving Park go to Sheffield and this time go North and you'll get to Wrigley Field. Hope I was helpful.

[@OneRyLove]

So beautiful...

[@Freewayjim]

@interstateruler Yes it does.

[@Freewayjim]

@Teketkeee Thank you!

[@Freewayjim]

@mutt1256 Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!

[@Freewayjim]

@FreewayTitan Thanks, I think very highly of it too.

[@jcrockett001]

Correct me if i'm wrong but didn't LSD split at Soldier Field at one point?

[@Freewayjim]

@FreewayBrent Thanks! it is one of the finest roads I've ever driven all things considered. LOL NASCAR Speeds.

[@anthonybryant4944]

Big city with Sears Tower

[@Freewayjim]

@Kingcire72x Thank you!

[@Freewayjim]

@eluko79 Thanks and I agree on the S-Curve

[@Freewayjim]

@Uaarkson Thank you, Good comparison!

[@1867Phoenix]

Interesting I have never heard of Lake Shore Drive being compared to FDR Drive. I have always thought they were simular, I did know that so many thought so too. Can you name an example where the two roads were compared?

[@ralphjohnson3202]

1867Phoenix you need to get out of Phoenix more often and experience real cities

[@RicksTravelogue]

6:53 - Where is that Ferris Wheel from?

[@Freewayjim]

@CALZOLA Thank you much!

[@markthrasher6770]

Lakeshore Drive makes FDR Drive look like a warehouse row

[@101southsideboy]

for those who did not get a good look at the map from 1965 north bound lanes of LSD were east of Solder Field and the Field museum and the s/b lanes on the west side .in 1998 when Chicago moved to the n/b lanes to the west they created what is now known as the museum campus connecting 3 museums and of course solder field

[@Foomba]

Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning. Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities; From Carl Sandburg's, "Chicago" Enjoy your vids especially this one.

[@Kingcire72x]

I am from NYC and I Say The FDR is quite nice when traffic is at a minimum at dusk which is rare...But LSD is prettier in my humble opinion ...They feel just about the same driving wise though....BIG THANX JIM "Ya Still THEMAN".. .Peace!

[@Freewayjim]

@jcrockett001 I believe it did!

[@Freewayjim]

@MrMarkingston Boring traffic? what does that mean, if I had my way there would be no traffic.

[@FreewayBrent]

(2-Part comment) This video is proof that not all freeways (even if parts of LSD are only expressway-grade) need to be super wide, modern or built to NASCAR speeds to be enjoyable. Truth is, LSD is one of the GREAT American roadways, and it's been filmed by *THE* King of freeway videographers. Perhaps the best skyline views along any roadway in America, along with the picturesque Lake Michigan shoreline, always within sight. Even better when there's a full moon out (continued in Part 2)

[@dave11686]

Sweet!

[@josephlalock8378]

no reference to the song by aliotta , haynes and jeremiah?

[@Freewayjim]

No, because I did not choose to use it.

[@interstateruler]

I bet during the day, Lake Shore Dr gets a lot of traffic

[@BeckettSong]

Admiral Kirk would call it the "LDS". LOL! Kirk meant to say LSD in Star Trek [Motion Picture] Episode 4: The Voyage Home.

[@ncuxap12444]

looks like driving on LSD is fun lol

[@TimothyLittle13]

Sometimes you can smell the green if your mind is feelin fine. There ain't no finer place to be than runnin Lake Shore Drive!

[@anthonybryant4944]

Downtown Chicago

[@Freewayjim]

@rickhh1 The Navy Pier

[@Terri2799]

OH WOW! Watching this makes me a little home sick.

[@rchilde1]

AWEsome!

[@Freewayjim]

+rchilde1 Thanks!

[@Freewayjim]

@railclaimore My son thanks you!

[@LIRR175]

I like the old font better.

[@zachfenton608]

Speed limit of just 40mph should be at least 50

[@smarttt9952]

i went to chicago skyline we to go somewehere so we use parking lot it was fun and cold i went on skyway to in not home OOPS

[@empresslisa6875]

Chi- town. Aka lil new york