Overview
- Chicago drivers lost 112 hours to congestion in 2025, costing the average driver $2,063 and the city about $7.5 billion.
- INRIX ranks Chicago among the most congested cities globally, second only to Istanbul in this year’s assessment.
- The typical U.S. driver lost 49 hours to traffic, up six hours year over year, with nationwide congestion costs topping $85 billion and about 88% of cities seeing increases.
- New York drivers logged 102 hours in delays as congestion held steady, with the MTA reporting roughly one million fewer vehicle entries into the toll zone in the program’s first month and about $216 million in revenue by midyear.
- Corridor hot spots helped drive city totals, including Chicago’s I-55 southbound with 87 hours lost and Boston’s I-93 southbound at 81 hours during peak travel.