After viewing eclipse downstate, long trip back home anything but stellar

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-eclipse-traffic-delays-20170822-story.html

The photo of the Johnston City exit was shared on the Tribune headline story. (Scott Olson, Getty Images)

CHICAGO, IL  – (Nerida Moreno, Chicago Tribune.  Please click on the link above for the full story.  Here is an excerpt below)

It took Ann McNamara nearly 15 hours to complete what is typically a five-hour trip from downstate Illinois to Chicago as thousands headed back home after the solar eclipse, clogging nearly every major highway.

McNamara, 56, of Irving Park, left Lake Egypt around 4:45 p.m. Monday but was trapped on I-57 in standstill traffic with her two young boys.

“It was the worst traffic I’ve ever seen, and I grew up in Chicago,” she said. “There were trucks pulled over on the exit ramps, on the shoulders of exit ramps, on the shoulders of the highway. A few times, I shut the car off for up to 40 minutes. So it was really bad.”