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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 Illinois tollway configuration until his death in 1951.
It then becomes known as the Kingery Highway through DuPage County, and then follows Busse Road, Oakton Street and Elmhurst Road in northern Cook County. In Lake County it is named McHenry Road in Buffalo Grove , Ivanhoe Road north of Mundelein , Barron Boulevard in Grayslake and Milwaukee Avenue in Lake Villa .
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.
IL 394 south (Calumet Expressway) – Danville I-294 Toll ends: Western end of I-94 concurrency; westbound exit and eastbound entrance; southern terminus of I-294; western end of Kingery Expressway: 163.41: 262.98: I-80 east / I-94 east / US 6 east (Borman Expressway) – Toledo, Detroit: Continuation into Indiana; eastern end of Kingery Expressway
(Calumet Expressway) I-94 IL 394: Runs from the southern terminus of the Dan Ryan Expressway, heads east, then south through the Far Southeast Side in Chicago to the southern suburbs before ending at a junction with the Kingery Expressway and the Tri-State Tollway. South of that point, it continues as IL 394 until IL 1 in Goodenow. Chicago Skyway
The expressway now known as the Borman was originally known as the Tri-State Highway, and construction of the expressway began in 1949. [6] The designation went through the Kingery Expressway and eventually linked with the Tri-State Tollway in Illinois. [7] It was originally designated SR 420 in Indiana. [8]
IL 83 south (Kingery Highway) Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; toll on eastbound entrance ramp: 137.29: 220.95: 138: 22nd Street (Cermak Road) to IL 83 north (Kingery Highway) Westbound entrance and exit; toll on entrance ramp: 137.73: 221.65: York Road Toll Plaza 53 (westbound) 138.27: 222.52: 138: I-294 Toll south (Tri-State Tollway) to ...
[5] [6] [7] By 1953, the route was rerouted to travel along Torrence Avenue and part of the Kingery Expressway (from US 30 Alternate to Indiana state line). [8] [9] Prior to the formation of US 6, the road west of Princeton was US 32. US 32 remained for several more years until the part east of Princeton became an extension of US 34.