My favorite bridge story is the first day we moved here in August 2020. Went to return the Uhaul after “curfew hours” which I had no idea about. Had to pull up our lease on the phone to show a police officer at one of the highway exits to the loop. From there, we had to go the wrong way down a one way street (because the bridges were all up) to somehow find our way back to our new apartment.
The cop told us, “you picked quite a day to move here”
Welcome to Chicago, Seth. You can go north and south pretty easily. You cannot go east and west without it taking 10x longer than it should, because every east/west artery bafflingly goes from two lanes to one lane just long enough to fuck everything up.
Very very aware. It took me 25 minutes to go one(1) mile to Home Depot at 5pm the other day. Was it a mistake to go at rush hour? For sure, but we needed firewood.