The city of Chicago has now topped New York as the most congested city in America and has some of the worst traffic congestion in the world.
According to the new Inrix Scorecard released this week, Chicago drivers lost 112 hours in traffic over the last year, nearly five full days. That lost time in traffic cost drivers more than $2,000 per year, according to the scorecard.
In previous years, Chicago had trailed New York in the rankings, but surpassed the Big Apple in the newest rankings, with their lost-time increasing by 10 hours according to the publication.
According to Inrix, Chicago trails Istanbul and Mexico City on the worldwide ranking, with New York and Philadelphia rounding out the top-five.
Impacting the ranking is Chicago having some of the most congested highways in the country. According to another ranking from Inrix earlier this year, the outbound Stevenson Expressway between the Dan Ryan Expressway and Cicero Avenue ranked as the fifth-most congested highway in America, with drivers losing around 79 hours per year on the roadway.
Two sections of the Kennedy Expressway between Cicero Avenue and Ohio Street ranked No. 6 and No. 7 on the ranking, according to the company. The inbound Eisenhower Expressway between Wolf Road and Harlem Avenue ranked No. 9 on the list, with the outbound Kennedy Expressway between Ontario Street and Irving Park Road rounding out the top-10.