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Illinois Route 394 (IL 394), also known as the Calumet Expressway, is a 14.6-mile-long (23.5 km) four-lane state highway that travels north from a junction with IL 1 south of Crete to an interchange in South Holland with Interstate 294/Interstate 94/Interstate 80 (I-294/I-94/I-80, Tri-State Tollway/Bishop Ford Freeway; this route is an extension of, but not part of the latter freeway).
IL 394 south (Calumet Expressway) – Danville: Southern terminus of Tri-State Tollway; eastbound exit and westbound entrance; I-94 east exit 74A: Lansing: 161.62: 260.10: 161: US 6 west / IL 83 (Torrence Avenue) Western end of US 6 concurrency; last free exit westbound: 162.51: 261.53: 160: I-94 west (Bishop Ford Freeway) – Chicago
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IL 137: A two-mile expressway located entirely in Waukegan, Illinois. It has only one exit at Grand Avenue. Elgin–O'Hare Tollway (Elgin–O'Hare Expressway) IL 390 Toll: Formerly an unnumbered free expressway, it heads west from IL 83 in Bensenville through Itasca, Roselle, and Schaumburg until terminating at an interchange with U.S. Route 20 ...
Interstate 294 (I-294) is a tolled auxiliary Interstate Highway in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Illinois.Forming the southern portion of the Tri-State Tollway in Illinois, I-294 runs from South Holland at I-80/I-94 and Illinois Route 394 (IL 394) to Northbrook at I-94.
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]
Lake Calumet is the largest body of water within the city of Chicago. Formerly a shallow, postglacial lake draining into Lake Michigan , it was transformed into an industrial harbor during the 20th century. [ 1 ]
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.