$43 a day to park steps from Midway’s Main terminal
The Daily Garage at MDW runs $43 per day and sits directly next to the Main Terminal, so you walk straight into check-in without waiting on a shuttle. This is the lot business travelers use when they’re expensing parking or in and out in 1–2 days and care more about time than saving $25–30 a day off-site.
This is long-stay parking, but at $43/day it gets painful once you hit the third or fourth night, especially when FlyerTalk posters quote off-site and hotel park-and-fly options under $10/day with prebooking. If your trip runs five nights, you’re staring at around $215 in garage charges versus roughly $50 off-site.
Because the garage is attached to the Main terminal, you’re usually at TSA in 5–10 minutes from your car, even if you’re up on the higher levels. Elevators and stairs feed straight toward the terminal walkway, so you’re not dealing with shuttle schedules or full buses after a late-night arrival.
Regular MDW flyers on FlyerTalk say they only swallow the on-airport rate for very short trips, then switch to off-site or hotel park-and-fly once their stay passes 2–3 days. One poster even mentions airport parking in the “high-$20s” as the point they started hunting for cheaper options; at $43, that math tilts even harder off-airport now.
Tip: If your parking bill will cross about $100, run a quick check of off-site and park-and-fly rates first; use the Daily Garage mainly for one- or two-night trips or when you absolutely need that 5-minute walk to the terminal.
Pricing
| Stay | Per day | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 1 day | $43.00/day | $43.00 |
| 3 days | $43.00/day | $129.00 |
| 7 days | $43.00/day | $301.00 |