$59 Find Cheap Flights from Charlotte to Illinois

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Cheap Flights from Charlotte to Illinois

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
Chicago
Chicagononstop$60
Moline
Molinenonstop$370
Peoria
Peoria2 stops$363
Bloomington
Bloomington1 stop$387
Springfield
Springfield1 stop$377
St. Louis
St. Louis1 stop$127
Paducah
Paducahnonstop$124
Chicago
Chicagononstop$60
Moline
Molinenonstop$370
Peoria
Peoria2 stops$363
Bloomington
Bloomington1 stop$387
Springfield
Springfield1 stop$377
St. Louis
St. Louis1 stop$127
Paducah
Paducahnonstop$124

Book Cheap Charlotte to Illinois Plane Tickets

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Charlotte to Illinois that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
Discover the best prices for you by selecting your travel dates on KAYAK.

Recent round-trip flight deals from Charlotte to Illinois

Fri, Feb 20 - Mon, Feb 23
Frontier Logo
9:21 pm - 10:52 pm
CLT
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ORD
2h 31mnonstop
Frontier Logo
11:46 am - 2:48 pm
ORD
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CLT
2h 02mnonstop
$60Frontier
Sun, Mar 8 - Thu, Mar 12
Frontier Logo
10:46 pm - 12:17 am
CLT
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ORD
2h 31mnonstop
Frontier Logo
6:55 pm - 9:57 pm
ORD
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CLT
2h 02mnonstop
$77Frontier
Sun, Mar 8 - Thu, Mar 12
Frontier Logo
10:46 pm - 12:17 am
CLT
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ORD
2h 31mnonstop
Frontier Logo
6:55 pm - 9:57 pm
ORD
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CLT
2h 02mnonstop
$78Frontier
Mon, Mar 2 - Wed, Mar 4
Southwest Logo
5:50 am - 6:55 am
CLT
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MDW
2h 05mnonstop
Southwest Logo
1:30 pm - 4:20 pm
MDW
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CLT
1h 50mnonstop
$177Southwest
Fri, Feb 27 - Tue, Mar 3
American Airlines Logo
8:29 pm - 9:58 pm
CLT
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MLI
2h 29mnonstop
American Airlines Logo
6:18 am - 9:45 am
MLI
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CLT
2h 27mnonstop
$370American Airlines
Thu, Feb 26 - Thu, Mar 5
American Airlines Logo
1:00 pm - 6:23 pm
CLT
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SPI
6h 23m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
5:00 am - 11:14 am
SPI
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CLT
5h 14m
1 stop
$377American Airlines
Wed, Feb 18 - Sat, Feb 21
United Airlines Logo
6:00 am - 10:11 am
CLT
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PIA
5h 11m
1 stop
United Airlines Logo
2:51 pm - 9:03 pm
PIA
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CLT
5h 12m
1 stop
$383United Airlines
Fri, Feb 27 - Sun, Mar 1
Delta Logo
6:59 pm - 10:06 pm
CLT
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BMI
4h 07m
1 stop
Delta Logo
3:36 pm - 8:38 pm
BMI
-
CLT
4h 02m
1 stop
$387Delta
Wed, Feb 18 - Sat, Feb 21
United Airlines Logo
10:30 am - 4:47 pm
CLT
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MLI
7h 17m
1 stop
United Airlines Logo
3:52 pm - 9:03 pm
MLI
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CLT
4h 11m
1 stop
$389United Airlines
Wed, Feb 25 - Thu, Mar 5
Delta Logo
9:54 am - 2:51 pm
CLT
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BMI
5h 57m
1 stop
Delta Logo
6:00 am - 11:00 am
BMI
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CLT
4h 00m
1 stop
$451Delta
Booking Insights

KAYAK's insights & trends for Charlotte to Illinois flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Charlotte to Illinois to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What is the cheapest Charlotte to Illinois flight route?

Data is based on round-trip flight searches on KAYAK over the past month.

The cheapest ticket to Illinois from Charlotte found in the last 72 hours was to Chicago, at $73 round-trip. The most popular route is from Charlotte (CLT) to Chicago O'Hare Intl Airport (ORD), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was $73.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from Charlotte to Illinois?

The average round-trip price for all non-stop flights, flights with one layover, and flights with two layovers for the route found by users searching on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.

No, with an average price for the route of $318, prices are generally cheapest when you fly direct.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Charlotte to Illinois?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Charlotte to Illinois, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.

The cheapest month for flights from Charlotte to Illinois is January, when tickets cost $170 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are July and March, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $277 and $265 respectively.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Charlotte to Illinois?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Charlotte to Illinois clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

If you are looking for a flight deal from Charlotte to Illinois, look for departures on Thursdays and avoid leaving on a Monday, as it's usually the priciest day. When flying back from Illinois, Thursday is the cheapest day to fly and Saturday is the most expensive.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Charlotte to Illinois?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Charlotte to Illinois, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each week.

To get a below average price on the flight from Charlotte to Illinois, you should book around 2 weeks before departure, which saves you about 33% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 6 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Low seasonMarch
Cheapest flight$59
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 19% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 9% lower on average.
Flight from Charlotte to St. Louis

Flights from Charlotte to Illinois: the best tips from KAYAK users

Insights shared by verified travelers who flew the route from Charlotte to Illinois 
LeoFlew with United Airlines
CLT
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ORD
Jun 2024
Get precheck TSA if you’re flying in early morning. Get a seat on the right side of the plane if you want to see sunrise.
JenniferFlew with American Airlines
CLT
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ORD
Jul 2024
Both the Charlotte and O'Hare airports are large and well organized. Wear you comfy walking shoes and enjoy the journey!

FAQs - booking Illinois flights

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Charlotte to Illinois?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from Charlotte to Illinois.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Charlotte to Illinois?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from Charlotte to Illinois is likely to change within 7 days, so travelers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Charlotte to Illinois?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly from Charlotte to Illinois with an airline and back with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Charlotte to Illinois?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying from Charlotte to Illinois up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

  • What is the cheapest time of day to fly to Illinois?

    The cheapest time of day to fly to Illinois is generally at night, when round-trip flights cost $255 on average. Morning departures are around 5% cheaper than evening flights, on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to Illinois is generally in the evening, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $506.

Top tips for finding cheap flights to Illinois

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found tickets from Charlotte to the following destinations at these prices or less: Chicago $140 one-way - $220 round-trip

Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Charlotte to Illinois

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Charlotte to Illinois. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Charlotte to Illinois? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
8.0
SouthwestOverall score based on 4273 reviews
7.0Food
8.1Boarding
7.5Entertainment
8.0Comfort
8.6Crew
Airline reviews

Flight attendants very hospitable and friendly. Pilot flew a smooth take off and landing.

10.0 ExcellentAnonymous, Feb 2026
MSY - PHX
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Flight attendants very hospitable and friendly. Pilot flew a smooth take off and landing.

Paid for premium extra leg room but the bin space for rows 1-3 had to go in rows 4-6 and 4-6 had to go to 7-9 because flight attendants have snacks and their luggage upfront. So we pay extra to have to fight thru traffic to get our bags. Only 2nd day of new seating so hope they fix this.

WIFI was great. My selection for seating is an aisle, but during my trip, I never had an aisle seat. If we can get that corrected, I will be thrilled. No snack or drink on this flight.

WIFI was great. My selection for seating is an aisle, but during my trip, I never had an aisle seat. If we can get that corrected, I will be thrilled.

The wifi on the plane is great. The only issue that I have is that I prefer an aisle seat and on my trips this week, I was either in the middle or window. If we can work to secure aisle seating, I will be thrilled. Nice trip.

All good except once again bags took an hour at Midway Airport Happens all the time. Ridiculous

Everything went smoothly and we even arrived a little bit early.

Great vacation. Can't wait till next year for another one.

Great flight but super high price. Glad it was a business trip and not personal

On time. Friendly staff. Took to long to pre bord all the specialty groups. Cramped small plane

Seated dude next to me even though lots of empty rows. But main thing was we sat on the tarmac after landing for 30 minutes because of, in the words of the dude who sat next to me, “operational incompetence”. We got changing directions about where to pick up gate checked bags. Pilot and flight attendant were awesome though.

It was a pretty standard flight... until the almost hour and a half spent on the taxi way. I get that the weather has been poor but the delay had nothing to do with the weather and more to do with a plane with several issues tying up the gate. I get that that happens from time to time but this has been EVERY flight I've been on for the past 5 years and I fly 3 to 5 times a year. This isn't just United... it's American, it's Delta. It's an issue with the entire industry. I work for UPS and packages on a cargo plane get better service than people do these days. Anymore I HATE flying.

Perfect flight. Smooth flight. Arrived 20 minutes early at destination. Excellent service.

The flights were on time which was great give. It was holiday travel season and there’d been some weather issues. The only complaint and this is every time with United is the terrible seat design. The head rest is not built for comfort and having my neck bent forward for a cross country trip reminded me while I try not to take United flights as a rule.

Everything was absolutely wonderful from check in to baggage claim. Staff was very professional and sweet. Will definitely recommend United to family and friends.

They did the one thing that really matters - got to Chicago early.

The flight was on time. I generally don’t drink or eat on short flights and the seats were good and the flight attendants were friendly. That’s all I expect

It was nice to have gotten up upgraded to first class with a meal on a three hour flight

Very bad! They kept delaying my flight and wouldn’t do anything about it

Door to door, the crew and staff were amazing. It was a stressful travel day with delays, but they were focused on customers and doing what they could to get us to our destinations.

Flight was smooth, quick and felt safe. The 2 delays not happening would have been better but I guess that happens in the airline industry

2 hour delay due to equipment failure. No updates via the app and airport screens (which continued to show a departure time in the past). AA eventually switched planes and the new plane was not catered or cleaned correctly.

Could we please end the loud announcements about credit card offers on your flights? We are trying to sleep, work, watch videos, etc. and if we need a credit card, we will ask for one. Flying is already not what it used to be.

Bags took over and hour to come out. Delays due to wind caused rebooking.

Lower WiFi prices; allow us to see our flight on a map; more variety of drink choices.

Flight was on time is the only good thing. Person loading the plane called 1-6 to board at the same time, made it chaotic. Plane was too small for even putting backpacks in overhead. Seat for normal sized people were too small. The WIFI didn't work. When we landed had to wait because not enough ground crew.

Waaay too small plane. They also need to up the size of the overhead bins. I would love to keep me 3k with of camera equipment in my hard case baggahe instead of it being thrown into the belly of the plane

After arriving in Dallas, the aircraft taxied for an unusually long time and was unable to park at the gate, which caused a significant delay and made me miss my connecting flight. I then had to wait in a very long line to be rebooked, and I was told that no hotel or meal accommodations would be provided. What is even more unacceptable is that my luggage was mishandled and has still not been located. My suitcase contains important medications that I urgently need, and I have been unable to access them due to the airline’s mishandling. This situation has caused me considerable stress and inconvenience, and I need this issue to be resolved immediately.

Flight was delayed because of a bird strike. They had another plane available within 45 minutes.

You can plug your phone in & use their wifi to watch movies, etc, but the plane’s wifi was disconnected for most of the flight.

Spirit has always and will always stink. Absolute worst airline around.

Flight was delayed would have liked it to have been on time. I didn't experience the food or entertainment but the boarding process was smooth and the flight crew worked well together and did a great job!

Not seat assigned because overbooking. We could go because some people decided to give their seats.

The flights were very uncomfortable the seats don't have much leg room at all and they are pretty hard as well.

Had to pay for water if wanted it. Seats are close unless you get upgraded. Flight was fine. Will travel again with spirit.

spirit delayed my first flight 9 hours and then cancelled my flight back home. Very disappointed with their service.

Bad experience with gate agent. I asked what group she was boarding. She gave me a face and said, with attitude, group 1. I stood back and waited for my group, group 2 to be called. After an awful lot of people boarded she took the mic and announced, now boarding group 5. The lack of professionalism amongst spirit staff is astounding.

Late taking off. ATC sent us circling around Chicago for almost an hour, after landing taxied for 40 minutes.

I waited for 4+ extra hours to even board when i was fighting off a cold. So i was sitting there in the airport with a fever and chills while spirit wasted my time. Then once on the plane we had at least an extra hour of taxiing before and after takeoff. Really poor airline, no amenities to speak of, and a lack of organization that will just ruin your experience.

Terrible. They cancelled the flight at the last minute after I had checked in at the airport and then told me they could only put me on a flight after 7 days. Pathetic.

Very well recently! Frontier is improving and less harrassing customer on luggages! Positive!

Good for a budget airline! It was easy to get on, staff was really nice. Can’t say anything about the food or entertainment because it wasn’t available, which is fine.

I am writing to express my disappointment with my recent Frontier Airlines flight. I was charged $99 at the gate because my bag was said to be too large, yet once onboard there was no available overhead bin space, and I was required to place the bag under the seat in front of me anyway. This made the charge feel unnecessary and unfair. Additionally, before the flight even took off, I was asked to move from the seat I paid for into a middle seat so another passenger and her cat could have my seat to themselves. I was not offered compensation or an explanation for being moved from a paid seat. Between the unexpected bag fee and being forced to give up my seat, this experience fell well below acceptable customer service standards. I would appreciate a review of this situation and appropriate compensation.

It was costly and difficult to check in. $85 to take a small suitcase with me, carry on or checked and $75 on the return trip, Plus $25 if I didn't check my self in check in $25, because I couldn't do it on the kiosk. Small very uncomfortable seats, waited on the runway for near an hour each way. It was my worst flight to date.

It was ok. It was expensive to check 2 bags ($75.00 per bag), and then it took a long time to wait for shuttle to take us from one terminal to the terminal where the plane was taking off at LAX. And all of this for a flight where we had to pay for any food or drink that was not water.

It didn’t happen. I booked it and then was told it wasn’t available and then forced to pay far higher prices for a worse option

A 630departure flight Delayed 6hours! They changed my gate, I moved to the new gate. Had our flight on the screen for 12noon departure. I go get above to eat, check screen again and the flight was gone, no notice no announcement, nothing!! They sent my bag on the flight I wasn’t on, got it back to me 3days later. Thank goodness they did refund my money but I will NEVER fly them again.

Due to weather, my flight was delayed, further delayed, then canceled. I eventually got through to a support person who helped me find a different route out of MSP, but to get to DIA, they didn't want to, but eventually did help with the connection ticket purchase. But even this replacement flight was delayed time and time again, and I would have missed my connecting flights and I didn't want to get stuck in a layover city, so after 12 hours at the airport with two young boys who were very tired, we just cancelled our plans and spent the week at home, instead of Nana's.

Plane and crew on board were fine. Everything else was terrible.

The third party booking with cheapflightsfares was awful. Kayak should NOT partner with them. They sold me a bundle including seat selection and carry-on, but did not book the carry-ons with Frontier, so I’m out of pocket for $414 more while I await resolution.

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