Port · USCHI, US

Port of Chicago

Port of Chicago (USCHI, US) is a medium port at 41.88° N, 87.60° W. In the last 7 days AIS Trail recorded 265 arrivals and 237 departures here; 44 vessels called in the last 30 days, most of them passenger ships.

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Port of Chicago in the API

Every arrival and departure at Port of Chicago, with draught changes and previous and next ports, is available through the AIS Trail API. A free key covers the last 7 days of history; paid plans cover the last 12 months, and Pro and Business add live positions.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIS_TRAIL_KEY" \
  "https://api.aistrail.com/v1/ports/4800/calls?from=2026-10-11&event=arrival"

Sources

• Live AIS via aisstream.io, provided without warranty. No published terms
• Open Waters AIS (https://openwaters.io/ais/), with each event's own source credit (mostly AISHub (https://www.aishub.net) and aisstream.io). Per-event source licence; not merged
• Port reference: UN/LOCODE, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), https://unlocode.unece.org, license CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Modified: port entries selected, deduplicated and merged with the World Port Index.
• Port reference: World Port Index (Pub. 150), National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).

Flags come from the MMSI country code, deadweight and size class are estimates from AIS dimensions, port calls are detected by AIS Trail from position reports. All sources and licences: Data sources.

Not for navigation. AIS data can be missing, delayed or wrong; do not use it for navigation, collision avoidance, search and rescue or any other safety-of-life purpose.