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With an average weekday ridership of 294,600 in 2015, Metra is the fourth-busiest commuter rail system in the United States, only behind New York City metropolitan area systems. [1] [2] The Metra system has a total of 243 active stations spread out on 11 rail lines with 487.5 miles (784.6 km) of tracks.
Just east of Rohrssen Road in Hoffman Estates, the road is named Golf Road, which the route is commonly called locally, after the minuscule town of Golf that the route passes through. The junction of Illinois 58 and Illinois Route 72 (Higgins Road) in Hoffman Estates form one of the only six-lane by six-lane sharply angled intersections in the ...
The road serves as a major six-lane thoroughfare for several western suburbs, including Schaumburg, Elk Grove Village, and Hoffman Estates. Illinois 72 runs concurrently for one block with Illinois Route 83 in Elk Grove Township, and Illinois Route 47 and U.S. Highway 20 by Starks , an unincorporated village approximately 60 miles (97 km) from ...
Chicago is a terminus for all three Illinois Service routes, which all have multiple daily round trips: Chicago– Quincy : two round trips daily, the Illinois Zephyr and the Carl Sandburg [ 1 ] Chicago– St. Louis Lincoln Service : four round trips daily and the only route that serves another state [ 2 ]
Illinois Route 72 cross-sign mounted on a stoplight in Hoffman Estates SBI Numbers are still used for several purposes, even when they do not match the posted number. IDOT District maps still refer to SBI numbers on the various roads it maintains, along with other non-posted designations that refer to how the route was authorized.
SBI Route 59 ran from Joliet to Antioch on the current IL 59. IL 59 was replaced by U.S. Route 66 as U.S. 66 made its way onto a new highway in 1940; by 1957, IL 59 had been returned to its original state. [2] The Illinois Department of Transportation opened a diverging diamond interchange at IL 59 and Interstate 88 in September 2015. [4]
The Union Pacific West Line (UP-W) is a Metra commuter rail line operated by Union Pacific Railroad in Chicago, Illinois and its western suburbs. Metra does not refer to its lines by particular colors, but the timetable accents for the Union Pacific West line are "Kate Shelley Rose" pink, honoring an Iowa woman who saved a Chicago & North Western Railway train from disaster in 1881.
Originally Effingham to Gordon, extended to current route in stages. IL 34: 61.74: 99.36 Hopkinton Street / Walnut Street in Rosiclare: IL 14/IL 37 in Benton: 1918: current Originally was a "T" Shaped route from Harrisburg to Elizabethtown and a leg south to Golconda and a ferry went to KY-297 across the Ohio River. Extended to Benton and to ...