Sure, lots of options…he’s in the Loop, for heavens sake! But I know his route, and it doesn’t make sense from a traffic point of view. The only thing I can think of is that he might live in the Printer’s Row area and work on the other side of the river, and his parking lot entrance is on State Street, so it doesn’t make sense to get off the street and then back on again over the course of only 1-2 miles.
And I’m going to be charitable and assume that if I’ve guessed correctly, he’s driving such a short distance because it’s raining or he needs his car for a meeting somewhere far away later that day!