Hotel and overnight guides

Where to spend a night at or near ORD: hotels by how you reach them, what each option costs, and what to expect if you stay in the terminal overnight. The guides answer the cost, distance and timing questions; the hotels page lists every property with how you reach it.

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

• Cheap hotels near O'Hare: Des Plaines, Schiller Park and Elk Grove Village

  Five hotels in Des Plaines, Schiller Park and Elk Grove Village: three list a shuttle, two don't. Taxi fare math, late-night gaps and where to board.

  • Where the three shuttles pick you up
  • What a late landing does to the plan
  • Where the taxi fare lands
  • The $2 bus along Mannheim Road
  • When Rosemont or the airport Hilton beats the suburbs
• Hotels near O'Hare with a free airport shuttle

  Hotel shuttles collect at the Terminal 2 arrivals curb. Loews, Staybridge Suites and Sonesta Simply Suites list 24-hour service. The Hilton is a walk.

  • Where to find the shuttle
  • Shuttles that run all night
  • Shuttles that stop for the night
  • More hotels with a free shuttle
  • When you’d rather not wait
  • The hotel you can walk to
  • Sources
• Sleeping at O'Hare overnight

  O'Hare publishes no overnight rule. Only Terminal 5's Checkpoint 10 stays open 24 hours, while two trains and some hotel shuttles run all night.

  • Which checkpoint is open all night?
  • What is open past security at night
  • Trains and rides that run through the night
  • Hotel shuttles and which run at night
  • Sources
• Staying near O'Hare before an early flight

  Three hotels list a shuttle that runs all night, and the Hilton at the airport needs none. First checkpoint times by terminal and what to ask a hotel.

  • When the first checkpoints open
  • Hotels with a shuttle that runs through the night
  • The hotel you can walk from
  • Hotels that give no early shuttle time
  • How long to allow between the hotel and the checkpoint
  • Sources
• The Hilton at O'Hare: the hotel inside the airport

  The Hilton Chicago O'Hare Airport stands across from Terminals 1, 2 and 3, joined by underground walkways. Restaurant hours, shops and the Blue Line link.

  • Getting from each terminal to the lobby
  • Eating and drinking in the hotel
  • Shops, business center and barber
  • What the airport says about the rooms
  • Sources