New Buffalo, Michigan is also just a few miles off of I80/90 @ the I94 split around Southern Lake Michigan.
Highly recommend it for a nice place if you need a layover, unwind, dinner:
Michigan City, Indiana is right up the road too @ the Interstate splits... With it's unique light:
Gets you a way from the hustle of the Chicagoland area and in The Dunes right off of I80/90/94:
Stop in Chesterton/Valparaiso... Right on the beaten path... Again away from the hustle, yet close to the National Lakeshore Park, dunes.
It's going on fall... Entering wine country there in Western Michigan, Northwest Indiana...