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The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), Illinois State Toll Highway Authority (ISTHA), and Skyway Concession Company (SCC) are responsible for maintaining these highways in Illinois. 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]
Illinois Route 9 (IL 9) is a 218.31-mile-long (351.34 km) cross-state, east–west rural state highway in the central part of the U.S. state of Illinois.It travels from Niota at the Fort Madison Toll Bridge, that crosses the Mississippi River into Iowa, eastward across central Illinois to State Road 26 (SR 26) at the Indiana state line.
EZ TAG, TxTag, or TollTag required; non-toll traffic must use the "last free exit" to bypass toll gantries SH 99 Toll (Grand Parkway) in Harris, Montgomery, Liberty, and Chambers Counties 104.7 168.5 I-10 / US 90 – Katy: SH 146 – Baytown: Maximum toll: $24.64 All-electronic toll SH 130 Toll (Pickle Parkway) 86 138 I-10 – Seguin
Under this Act, promulgated April 1, 1968, ISTHA assumed the assets and obligations of the Illinois State Toll Highway Commission. [9] In the 1970s, the East–West Tollway was extended west from Sugar Grove to Dixon with a freeway continuing to the Quad Cities. The route was later given the I-88 designation in order to obtain a higher speed limit.
E-ZPass is an electronic toll collection system used on toll roads, toll bridges, and toll tunnels in the Eastern, Midwestern, and Southeastern United States.The E-ZPass Interagency Group (IAG) consists of member agencies in several states, which use the same technology and allow travelers to use the same transponder on toll roads throughout the network.
The state of Illinois uses exit numbers on three freeways, on Illinois Route 6 (IL 6) between in Peoria, IL 390 in the northwestern suburbs of Chicago, and IL 255 in the suburbs of St. Louis. The state of Indiana uses exit numbers on two highways with freeway segments, on US 31 between Indianapolis and South Bend and SR 912 in northwest Indiana.
In 1963, the East-West Tollway was built. From 1963 to 1965, the tollway was marked as US 30 Toll and ran along modern-day I-88, I-294, and the present-day IL 394 (which in 1963 was called IL 1 until 1964, when it became IL 394). The East-West Tollway portion was renamed to IL 190 in 1965 and eventually became IL 5 before becoming I-88 in 1988.
Illinois Route 390 (IL 390), previously known as the Elgin–O'Hare Expressway, now known as the Elgin–O'Hare Tollway, is a 9.8-mile (15.8 km) controlled-access toll road in northeastern Illinois. IL 390 currently connects U.S. Route 20 (US 20, Lake Street) in Hanover Park to the interchange with Illinois Route 83 (IL 83) and Thorndale Avenue ...