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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]
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.
The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 spurred extensive construction around Chicago, but by 1960, the Crosstown Expressway was the only route included in the region's postwar transportation plans yet to break ground. [3] The State of Illinois, Cook County, and City of Chicago formed the Crosstown Expressway Task Force in 1963.
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.
In 2020, the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority began construction of an estimated $700–$800 million project intended to address these operational issues at the I-290/I-88 interchange at I-294 as part of the Illinois Tollway's Central Tri-State Project.
Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; no trucks allowed on Deerfield Road east: Lake–Cook county line: Deerfield–Northbrook city line: 25.32: 40.75: 25A: Lake Cook Road: Toll on eastbound exit and westbound entrance ramps; northbound exit and southbound entrance via I-294: 24.91– 25.58: 40.09– 41.17: 25B
These highways are maintained by the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), with the exception of Illinois Route 390 and parts of Illinois Route 56 and Illinois Route 110, which are maintained by the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority (ISTHA), and all routes that enter the Chicago City Limits are maintained by the Chicago Department ...
County Location mi [8] km Destinations Notes; Will–Cook county line: Frankfort: 0.00: 0.00: US 30 / Lincoln Highway: Road continue south as Harlem Avenue: Tinley Park: 3.1: 5.0: I-80 – Joliet, Gary: I-80 exit 148: Cook: Orland Park–Tinley Park line: 6.6: 10.6: US 6 (159th Street) Palos Heights: 11.7: 18.8: IL 83 (119th Street, College ...