Parking outside of Chicago

dewey02 wrote:

Mccallaj wrote:
Thanks to all who responded. We are actually going to stay with our friends so we are just looking for a safe place to park the 22' Class C for 2 nights, not a place to camp. So, we will check out the METRA site for potential overnight parking lots that can accommodate us.

I am very familiar with Chicago, having grown up there. I would be leery of leaving any RV alone in a public parking lot for 2 nights. You may be much better off finding an RV park and seeing if you can get a discounted payment for parking it, but not camping there.

I agree leaving something like that unattended near ANY BIG CITY is putting out the WELCOME MAT for trouble. I went to college in Chicago at IIT which is 33 blocks south of downtown right on State St. and one year my room mate who just got a new 67 Camero and worked nights at the large UPS sorting facility near downtown on the night shift came out from work to find his Camero now sporting 3 milk crates at 3 wheel locations and a jack at the fourth after only about 4 hrs and the car was in the UPS employee parking lot. Point is you open yourself up to this sort of exposure if you leave your vehicle in any public area for any length of time. How nice the area is doesn't help since that's where the low lifes know the pickin is good. Leaving your RV at either a Private Residence or a CG are the only two semi secure locations IMO.

Larry