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Smoldering wreckage is seen after a crash involving at least 72 vehicles shut down a highway in Illinois, Monday, May 1, 2023. Illinois State Police say a windstorm that kicked up clouds of dust ...
I-55 remains shut down in both directions
I-55, a major traffic artery through the state, reopened around 6 a.m. Tuesday, local time, nearly 20 hours after the chain-reaction crashes were first reported, Illinois State Police said ...
Road crews struggled to keep up as some areas saw blizzard conditions. More than 100,000 power outages were reported in Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky, leaving people across the region in the dark.
Interstate 55 (I-55) is a major north–south Interstate Highway in the US state of Illinois that connects St. Louis, Missouri, to the Chicago metropolitan area.It enters the state from Missouri near East St. Louis, Illinois, and runs to U.S. Route 41 (US 41, Lake Shore Drive) near Downtown Chicago, where the highway ends, a distance of 294.38 miles (473.76 km). [2]
More: Eighth person dies as a result of May 1 crash along Interstate 55. A combination of forces: 40 Illinois State Police troopers, additional ambulances from Decatur and St. Louis, and hundreds ...
Passing by the Illinois State Police Office, the route continued northeast through Cayuga and Odell to Dwight. A restored Standard Oil Gasoline Station still stands in Odell, as does Ambler's Texaco Gas Station in Dwight. The 18.2-mile (29.3 km) stretch from Cayuga to Chenoa was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 23, 2007 ...
Illinois's state route numbers originated in 1918 as State Bond Issues 1 through 46, used to finance the new roads. The numbers of the bond issues were then used to mark the highway routes along the way. Another series of bond issues were authorized in 1924 (47–185) and again were used to mark the roads they paid for.