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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenobi65" data-source="post: 2638525" data-attributes="member: 1515">Weather in early December is usually getting cold (highs in the 30s).  The first sticking snow has usually fallen by then, though depending on the weather, the snow might melt a day or two later.  So, you could have 40s and sunny, or 20s and snowy.  Biggest issue in Chicago in winter tends to be the wind...a cold northern wind in winter is called, by some locals, "the Hawk."  It's rare to have a lot of snow here at that time of year, but it does happen sometimes.A lot of people who live in Chicago proper don't drive much (though most, except for the really poor, do have cars).  Traffic can be pretty snarly, esp. at rush hour.  Parking downtown is expensive; finding street parking in a lot of the neighborhoods is challenging.The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) has an extensive network of buses, and there's also the L (what anyone else would call the subway), which runs throughout the city.  ("L" is short for "elevated"; most of the tracks are elevated above ground level, in some cases running directly above city streets.)Here's the CTA system maps:<a href="http://www.transitchicago.com/maps/systemmaps.html" target="_blank">http://www.transitchicago.com/maps/systemmaps.html</a>You'll see it also refers to PACE (which is the suburban bus service).</blockquote>