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SBI Route 57 was the current US 41 and IL 50 from Highland Park to Chicago. [4] In 1949 it was moved to Hull to Quincy, following much of the same alignment it does today. As late as 1962, it was moved from its original alignment following 8th Street, Jackson Street, and 12th street to its current alignment following Gardner Expressway and 3rd Street.
The oldest segment of I-57 is a 6.2-mile (10.0 km) strip running east of Bradley to Kankakee labeled on the 1959 Illinois state highway map. [5] Two years later, a 33-mile (53 km) stretch of I-57 from Dongola north to Marion opened on September 26, 1961. [ 6 ]
Illinois Route 17 (IL 17) is a rural, arterial east–west state highway that runs east from a former ferry crossing in New Boston along the banks of the Mississippi River [3] to State Road 2 west of Lowell, Indiana. It is 209.40 miles (337.00 km) long.
Area served City of license VC RF Callsign Network Notes Carbondale/~Paducah KY: Johnston City: 15 15 W15BU-D: 3ABN: 3ABN Proclaim on 15.2, 3ABN Dare to Dream on 15.3, 3ABN Latino on 15.4, 3ABN Kids on 15.5, 3ABN Radio on 15.6, 3ABN Radio Latino on 15.7, Radio 74 on 15.8
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] The Interstate Highway with the longest section in Illinois is Interstate 57 at 358.57 miles (577.06 km); the shortest is Interstate 41 at 0.90 miles (1.45 km).
Map of Illinois highlighting the Metro Lakeland region. Metro Lakeland is a name that was coined in the 1960s for an area of southern Illinois that is centered on the intersections of Interstate 57, Interstate 24, and Illinois Route 13—a four-lane east-west highway connecting the communities of Murphysboro, Carbondale, Carterville, Herrin, Marion, and Harrisburg.
The highway heads northbound to Mounds, near Cairo, and begins to overlap Interstate 57 (I-57), following it for 24 miles (39 km) to Dongola, before splitting and heading north. The highway remains two lanes wide from Dongola to Assumption with the exception of a 10-mile (16 km) section between Centralia and I-64 .
WAND (channel 17) is a television station licensed to Decatur, Illinois, United States, serving the Central Illinois region as an affiliate of NBC.Owned by Block Communications, the station maintains studios on South Side Drive in Decatur, and its transmitter is located along I-72, between Oreana and Argenta.