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Lake Cook Road (alternatively referred to as County Line Road or Main Street in some areas) is a major east–west highway in Cook, Lake, McHenry, and Kane Counties in Illinois. For much of its length, it marks the border between Cook and Lake Counties, hence the name of the road.
IL 22 (Half Day Road) Lake Forest: 52.1: 83.8: IL 60 (Kennedy Road) Lake Bluff: 54.9: 88.4: IL 176 (Rockland Road) North Chicago: 57.1: 91.9: IL 137 (Buckley Road) Park City: 60.30: 97.04: US 41 north (Skokie Highway) / IL 120 (Belvidere Road) – Grayslake: IL 120: Southbound exit and northbound entrance; US 41: Northbound exit and southbound ...
IL 83's northern terminus at the Wisconsin state line. IL 83 passes through Cook County, DuPage County, and Lake County.It begins as part of Glenwood–Dyer Road in Lynwood, and then follows Torrence Avenue though Lansing, 147th Street/Sibley Boulevard though Calumet City, Dolton, Harvey, Dixmoor, then north on Cicero, and then northwest on Cal Sag Road through Cook County.
On August 25, 2011, the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority (ISTHA) approved a $12-billion (equivalent to $16 billion in 2023 [10]) capital plan called Move Illinois, which seeks to improve toll roads under their jurisdiction; the authority doubled toll rates to help fund it. [11] [12] The bypass is also part of the EOWA project. [13] [14]
The Illinois Tollway's 2005–2012 Congestion-Relief Program provided $644.1 million (equivalent to $966 million in 2023 [6]) in projects along the I-90 corridor. [7] Projects included rebuilding and widening of the tollway between I-39 and Rockton Road, including a reconfiguration of the I-90/I-39 interchange.
Cook County has a modest amount of county roads after plans were made in 2009 to designate many roads on county ownership as a public service. [14] Only the designated streets in the townships of Lemont, Palos, Orland, Bremen, Lyons (south of the rivers) and Wheeling have the blue pentagon signs that are used to demarcate county roads.
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.
It was the first expressway in Chicago and was opened on December 20, 1951. It has three lanes in each direction. The original name of the expressway was the Edens Parkway, named after William Grant Edens (1863–1957), a banker and early advocate for paved roads. He was a sponsor of Illinois's first highway bond issue in 1918. [4]