[Otter74]

I live and work in the city (live on the north side, work on the south side) so I go through downtown regularly, whether in my car, on the CTA or on my bike. I don't see any reason to take 90/94 through the city unless there is some big wreck somewhere else that makes it the only good option. That construction project is *still* ongoing and conditions are not much changed.

I don't know why anyone would take surface streets trying to get through the city unless a freeway was closed, but if you do need to, Stony Island Ave. is the best route from 94 to Midway Plaisance in Hyde Park, from where you can take Lakeshore Drive to I-55 just south of downtown and rejoin 90/94, or go through Washington Park and take Garfield west to 94. Diagonally, S. Chicago between 95th and Marquette. If you had to avoid the freeway on the north side, I'd take 290 to Cicero and back to 90/94 where they split. All of the above will be slow but those are the least bad if you're trying to get through. Please don't speed in the city (yes I care about that s**t)

I would skip the city entirely and either take 294 to 94, or take 294 to 290 to 90. (294 to 290 to 90 will have you skip most of the construction on 294) From there you can take 90 to Madison (I drove that the other week and it's all clear), and then 151 to Oshkosh. I've only been to Oshkosh-the-event once (and dang it was fun) but it was about 5-6 years ago so I don't remember my route.

Also, people on internet forums who make comments like the above about Chicago or other big cities ("lock the doors, etc." I find almost uniformly know nothing about the city in question. Yes, Chicago has rough neighborhoods on the south and west sides. No, the guys with guns or whatever don't care about white dudes from out of town in big RVs. The people who are at significant danger in those neighborhoods are the ones who live there. I work in Englewood and ride my bike 15 miles to and from my home on the northwest side and don't think anything of it.