About 521 nm — roughly 1h 35m in a midsize jet. Nothing live on this exact route this minute. Save the route and we will watch it for you.
Every price on EmpTleg buys the entire aircraft, not a seat.
Washington, D.C. to Chicago is a different flight with its own aircraft, its own days and its own price: empty legs from Washington, D.C. to Chicago.
Nobody schedules an empty leg. One shows up here because an operator has an aircraft finishing a trip near Chicago and needs it near Washington, D.C. — or needs it home, and this direction happens to be the way home. That is why the flight can be a fraction of a full charter, why it can vanish within hours, and why the return direction is a different flight entirely with its own price and its own aircraft. Watching the route beats searching it once.