Elusive chorus sound.

Ok, I've been playing for years. I've searched for this sound too, for years. It's a chorus but by no means the run of the mill we all have in our gear from the factory. Spatial, thicker, I don't care what you call it, it's just better sound. Eric Johnson's Forty Mile Town has a mild taste of it. Yeah, I hear the delay and the reverb but there is just a special quality to the chorus that I've never been able to duplicate. Help!

Could it be compressed ?

Yeah, you are right on the compression, but I'm not sure that the compression is the quality that I'm talking about. I need to find some other examples for you to hear. Thanks for the response.

Ok, Christopher Cross's, Sailing. Yeah I know its and oldie but the sound of the arpeggiated guitar is pretty much the quality I mean. This was actually one of the first examples of this sound I remember any artist using. Since then there have been a number of other times I've heard it. Sometimes there have been small subtile differences but seemingly from the same chorus effect. I feel like a surfer on a quest for the perfect wave, I can get really close but never reach it.