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tdiller
Sep 20, 2017Explorer
moresmoke wrote:dodge guy wrote:
That's exactly what I do when I head out of IL. I'll take the back roads that travel at 55mph with very little slowing down. Just leaving from my house in the NW burbs of Chicago with my trailer would cost me about $15 one way. That's $30 for a round trip to WI or IA! Do that 2 or 3 trips a year and it's pricey. And the back roads are less crazy than interstate Hwy's.
So which back road would you suggest to get from your place to IN/MI?
I'm not sure of the routes but I left Illinois going counterclockwise around Lake Michigan and was able to avoid the toll roads other than the bridge into the UP. I simply looked at the map and found routes around the tolls. I think I took 47 south to near Joliet then 30 across to 49 then north to 12 and such
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