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In 1929, a ferry that once crossed the Ohio River closed in favor of opening Brookport Bridge. [3] By 1930, most of the sections were finished and then opened to traffic. [4] The original alignment followed (from south–north) what used to be part of IL 1, IL 140, IL 25, IL 44, IL 51, and IL 46 before terminating at US 12. [5]
Oak Lawn is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 58,362 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] Oak Lawn is a suburb of Chicago , located southwest of the city.
Nearly the entire western boundary of Illinois is the Mississippi River, except for a few areas where the river has changed course. Illinois' southeastern and southern boundary is along the Wabash River and the Ohio River, whereas its northern boundary and much of its eastern boundary are straight survey (longitudinal and latitudinal) lines ...
This marks the beginning of Illinois's southern border with Kentucky, which runs along the northern shoreline of the Ohio River. [65] Most of the western border with Missouri and Iowa is the Mississippi River ; Kaskaskia is an exclave of Illinois, lying west of the Mississippi and reachable only from Missouri.
The Illinois–Indiana–Kentucky tri-state area is a tri-state area where the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky intersect, and a region of the Upland South. The area is defined mainly by the television viewing area and consists of ten Illinois counties, eleven Indiana counties, and nine Kentucky counties, centered upon the Ohio ...
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The US 20/IL 84 bridge over the Galena River in Galena As the highway enters Illinois across the Julien Dubuque Bridge, it continues southeasterly for a while, paralleling the Upper Mississippi River before turning east into the rugged country of the Driftless Area in Jo Daviess County, then turning flat and straight west of Stockton and entering Stephenson County.