Parking guides

What parking at ORD costs and which option fits your trip: the garages by the terminals, the cheaper options for a longer trip, and where to wait when you are picking someone up. The guides answer one question each; the parking page lists every lot with its published rates.

Looking for the listings themselves? They are on the Parking page.

• Can you reserve parking at O'Hare?

  Yes. O'Hare holds a covered space for $10 per space per day on top of parking, on Level 2 of the Terminal 5 garage or Level 4 of the Main Garage or Lot F.

  • Where the reserved spaces are
  • How you book
  • How the fee adds up
  • Reserve, or drive in and look
  • What the reserved page doesn’t say
  • Check your vehicle’s height first
  • Sources
• Cheapest parking at O'Hare for a week away

  Seven days at O'Hare's daily rates: $112 in Economy Lot G or H, $210 in Lot F, $301 in the Main Garage, and how the shuttle and train work.

  • What a week costs in each lot
  • Tall vehicles and electric cars
  • What the airport doesn’t publish for a week
  • Where Lots F, G and H are
  • How the shuttle and train get you to your terminal
  • Reserving a space costs $10 a day extra
  • Sources
• EV charging and tall vehicles in O'Hare parking

  O'Hare lists EV stations in the Main Garage, Terminal 5 garage and Lot F. Clearances run 6 feet 6 inches to 9 feet. Lots D, G and H have no height limit.

  • Stations and clearances side by side
  • Which garage suits an electric car?
  • Where does a tall vehicle fit?
  • A tall vehicle that needs a charge
  • Sources
• Short-term parking at O'Hare: the hourly rates

  Main Garage Level 1 charges $3 for the first hour and $79 for 8 to 24 hours. The daily levels charge $43 for that band. Rates, payment and clearances.

  • What each stay costs
  • If your stay runs past a few hours
  • How to pay and what to watch for
  • Sources
• Which O'Hare parking is closest to your terminal?

  Premier is under 300 feet from Terminals 1 and 3 at $63 a day. Terminal 2 uses the Main Garage, Terminal 5 its own garage. Economy lots need a train.

  • Where to park for each terminal
  • Premier Parking is covered and takes no bookings
  • The Main Garage and Lots B and C
  • Terminal 5 has its own garage
  • The economy lots need a train
  • Sources