Chicago Car Rental
Chicago Car Rental services the third-most populous city in the U.S. The Chicago metropolitan area has a population of over 9.5 million people. Chicago is a major business, financial, and industrial center, and its O’Hare International is the second busiest airport in the world. A highly politicized city, it is a stronghold of the Democratic Party and home to the current President of the United States, Barack Obama.
Chicago is a transliteration of an Indian word for “skunk” or “onion” or “Big Stinky Place”. The city is known today by several other nicknames – “Windy City”, “Chi-Town”, “Second City” and “City of Big Shoulders”.
Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable was the first European to settle in the area, marrying a Potawatomi woman and building a trading post in the 1770s. On August 12, 1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of around 200. The city was incorporated on March 4, 1837.
Rental car companies have come to rely on an emerging technology called telematics – which combines satellite-based GPS tracking, wireless communications and vehicle monitoring systems – to keep tabs on their rental units.
Early uses of the technology in rental cars were intended to help motorists find their way. But recent efforts have quietly focused on catching renters who drive out of state or break speed laws.
The $259.51 bill you had expected ballooned to $3,405.05 – most of it a result of a $1-a-mile fee for each of the 2,874 miles driven. It turned out that by crossing the state line, you had violated the Chicago car rental contract.
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