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The Tri-State Highway was the designation for an 18 mile expressway in the Chicago metropolitan area. The original designations for the expressway were Interstate 80, 90, and 294, as well as a portion of U.S. Route 6. It connects the Tri-State Tollway, Bishop Ford Freeway, and Illinois Route 394 in the west to the Indiana Toll Road in the east.
The Tri-State Tollway is a controlled-access toll road in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Illinois. Originally U.S. Route 41 Toll , it follows: Interstate 80 from I-94/I-294/IL 394 in South Holland to I-294 in Hazel Crest;
The Tri-State Expressway opened to traffic on November 1, 1950. [2] The highway was renamed the Kingery Expressway in 1953, two years after the death of Robert Kingery. He was a former director of the Illinois Public Works, a regional director for the Chicago Regional Planning Association, as well as a proponent of the current northeastern ...
Interstate 294 (I-294) is a tolled auxiliary Interstate Highway in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Illinois.Forming the southern portion of the Tri-State Tollway in Illinois, I-294 runs from South Holland at I-80/I-94 and Illinois Route 394 (IL 394) to Northbrook at I-94.
Runs from its complex interchange with the Kennedy Expressway and the Tri-State Tollway through the northwest suburbs towards Rockford and South Beloit. Edens Expressway (Skokie Highway) I-94 US 41: Runs south from Park Avenue West in Highland Park to its interchange with the Kennedy Expressway near Montrose.
The first segment to open was the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway between Devon Avenue and Elgin on August 20, 1958 at 3 p.m. [7] The Toll Highway Act, in its present form, dates from 1967, but has been amended since. [8] Under this Act, promulgated April 1, 1968, ISTHA assumed the assets and obligations of the Illinois State Toll Highway ...
[a] This is a list of the longest state highways in each state. As of 2007, the longest state highway in the nation is Montana Highway 200, which is 706.624 miles (1,137.201 km) long. The shortest of the longest state highways is District of Columbia Route 295, which is 4.29 miles (6.90 km) long.
The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), Illinois State Toll Highway Authority (ISTHA), and Skyway Concession Company (SCC) are responsible for maintaining these highways in Illinois. The Interstate Highway System in Illinois consists of 13 primary highways and 11 auxiliary highways which cover 2,248.93 miles (3,619.30 km). [2]