Night view of the tollbooths as you enter Chicago from the Chicago Skyway

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Street layout

Chicago's streets primarily follow the grid system established by the Chicago Board of Aldermen in 1908 and implemented on September 1, 1909. All addresses are numbered outward from baselines at State Street, which runs North and South, and Madison Street, which runs East and West. Street numbers begin at "1" at the base lines and ascend numerically to the city limits. Letters (N, S, E, or W) indicate directions. Nickname: Motto: Urbs in Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in the Chicago metro area and Illinois Coordinates: , Country State Counties Cook, DuPage Settled 1770s Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government  - Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area  - City 234. ... A city-centre street in Frankfurt, Germany A residential street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA A street is a public thoroughfare in the built environment. ... A simple grid plan road map (Windermere, Florida). ... Chicago City Hall, adjacent to the Richard J. Daley Center, houses the chambers of the Chicago Board of Aldermen. ... is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... An address is a code and abstract concept expressing the fixed location of a home, business or other building on the earths surface. ... State Street is the name given to one of the major thoroughfares in Chicago, Illinois. ... Madison Street is a major east-west thoroughfare in Chicago, Illinois. ...

The city of Chicago is divided into one-mile sections which nearly everywhere contain exactly 8 blocks to the mile. Every average block is assigned a new series of 100 numbers. Therefore, each 800 in numbers is one mile. (North-south blocks in and just south of downtown are an exception to the 800-to-a-mile rule: Madison (0 N/S) to Roosevelt (1200 S) is one mile, as are Roosevelt to Cermak (2200 S) and Cermak to 31st Street (3100 S). The normal 800 rule resumes south of 31st Street so that Pershing Road (3900 S) is one mile south of 31st.) City Blocks are a part of the fictional universe recounted in the Judge Dredd series that appears in the UK comic book 2000 AD. // Overview Also known as starscrapers or stratoscrapers (compare skyscraper), they are the most common form of mass-housing in Mega-City One, averaging a population of...

The blocks are normally counted out by "hundreds," so that Chicagoans routinely give directions by saying things like "about one thousand north on Western" or "around twenty-four hundred west on Augusta" (which both describe locations near the intersection of Western Avenue (2400 W) and Augusta Boulevard (1000 N)). Oak Street is a very prestigious shopping destination in Chicago. ...

South of Madison Street most of the east-west streets are simply numbered. The street numbering is aligned with the house numbering, so that 95th Street is exactly 9500 South. "Half-block" east-west thoroughfares in this area are numbered and called places; 95th Place would lie just south of and parallel to 95th Street, and just north of 96th Street.

Every four blocks (half-mile) is a major secondary street. For example, Division Street (1200 N) is less important than either Chicago Avenue (800 N) or North Avenue (1600 N), but is still a major thoroughfare. However, this is not always the case; for example, on the city's Far North Side, Peterson Avenue (6000 N) is a more heavily trafficked street than Bryn Mawr Avenue (5600 N), which sits exactly at the 7-mile marker. U.S. Route 14 is routed along Peterson between Clark Street at 1600 W and Cicero Avenue/IL Route 50 at 4800 W, whereas Bryn Mawr is discontinuous, split into two segments in this part of the city by Rosehill Cemetery between Damen and Western Avenues. Division Street is a major east-west street in Chicago, Illinois, located at 1200 North (one and a half miles north of Madison Street). ... U.S. Route 14 (U.S. 14), an east-west route, is one of the original United States highways of 1926. ... Chicagos Clark Street is occasionally a diagonal, and occasionally a north-south street running near the shore of Lake Michigan from the city limits with Evanston (where it is called Chicago Avenue, and further north, Green Bay Road) south to Cermak Road. ... See also U.S. 50 U.S. 51 U.S. 52 Illinois Route 50 is a north-south state road in northeastern Illinois. ...

Even-numbered addresses are found on the north and west sides of a street, and odd numbers are found on the south and east sides, irrespective of the streets' position relative to the corner of State and Madison. Diagonals, even if they were to run exactly 45 degrees off of the cardinal directions, are numbered as if they were north-south or east-west streets.

The northernmost street in Chicago is Juneway Terrace, just north of Howard Street. The southern boundary is 138th Street. The eastern boundary of Chicago is Avenue A, and the furthest west the city extends is in the portion of O'Hare Airport that lies in DuPage County, just east of Elmhurst/York Road. OHare International Airport (IATA: ORD, ICAO: KORD, FAA LID: ORD) is an airport located in Chicago, Illinois, United States, 17 miles (27 km) northwest of the Chicago Loop. ... DuPage County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. ...

Street names

While all north-south streets within city limits are named, rather than numbered, smaller streets in some areas are named in groups all starting with the same letter; thus, when traveling westward on a Chicago road, starting just past Pulaski Road (4000 W), one will cross a mile-long stretch of streets which have names starting with the letter K, giving rise to the expression "K-town." These streets are found approximately in the 11th mile west of the Indiana state line, and so begin with the 11th letter of the alphabet. A mile later, just past Cicero (4800 W), the starting letter changes to L, and mile by mile the letters progress up to P. Additionally, for most of the first mile west of the Illinois/Indiana state line, streets are lettered from Avenue A at the state line (4100 E) to Avenue O (3430 E), forming the A group. The areas that might otherwise be the B through J groups are the older parts of the city where street names were already well established before this system was developed (although some small groups of streets seem to have been given names intended to conform to the system), and the Q group (8800 to 9600 W) would fall west of the city, as the only land in Chicago west of 8800 West is O'Hare Airport, undeveloped forest preserve, and a small strip of land connecting O'Hare to the rest of the city and containing only Foster Avenue. Pulaski Road is a major north-south thoroughfare in the city of Chicago, at 4000 W., or exactly five miles west of State Street. ...

See also Etymologies of place names in Chicago, Illinois. Source of the place names in the city of Chicago, Illinois. ...

Suburbs

Some suburbs number their east-west streets in a continuation of the Chicago pattern, and even more number their houses according to the Chicago grid. A few suburbs also number their north-south avenues according to the Chicago grid, although such numbering vanished from Chicago itself long ago (the alphabetical naming scheme was devised to help eliminate it). For example, the 54/Cermak terminus of the Chicago 'L' rapid transit system is located near the intersection of 54th Avenue and Cermak Road (22nd Street) in Cicero. This is 54 blocks west of State Street in Chicago. A minor street 54½ blocks west of State Street would be called 54th Court. 54/Cermak is a station on the Chicago Transit Authoritys L system, serving the Pink Line, and the Blue Lines 54/Cermak branch during rush hour only. ... The L[1], variously, if perhaps incorrectly, styled L, El, EL, or L, is the rapid transit system that serves Chicago, Illinois in the United States. ... Cermak Road, formerly 22nd Street, is a major east-west artery on Chicagos south side and western suburbs. ... Incorporated Town in 1869. ...

This pattern continues west to Plainfield, which has a 252nd Avenue. Suburbs that follow the Chicago numbering system include Niles, Morton Grove, Skokie, Lincolnwood, Evergreen Park, Oak Lawn, Oak Forest, Matteson, parts of Des Plaines, and other parts of Cook County, Will, and DuPage Counties. Other suburbs, including Evanston, Park Ridge, Oak Park, and Glenview, use their own numbering systems. The Village of Plainfield is a municipality located in Will County, Illinois. ... Niles is a village located in Cook County, Illinois. ... Morton Grove is a village located in Cook County, Illinois. ... For the film of the same name, see Skokie (Movie). ... Incorporated Village in 1922. ... Incorporated Village in 1893. ... Incorporated Village in 1909. ... Incorporated City in 1900. ... Matteson is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. ... Incorporated City in 1925. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Incorporated City in 1872. ... The City of Park Ridge The city of Park Ridge is an affluent suburb of Chicago in Cook County in the United States. ... Downtown (Oak Park Avenue) Ernest Hemingway Museum Oak Park, Illinois Lake Theater and shops along Lake Street. ... Glenview is the name of two places in the State of Illinois in the United States of America: Glenview, Cook County, Illinois Glenview, Saint Clair County, Illinois This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Some Chicago suburbs in adjoining Northwest Indiana also use the Chicago numbering system. These include Whiting, Indiana and Hammond, Indiana while adjoining Munster, Indiana, Highland, Indiana, Griffith, Indiana are based on the Gary, Indiana numbering system beginning with 5th Avenue in Gary and slowly working south with streets named 15th Avenue and 45th Avenue and examples in far south Lake County, Indiana near Lowell and Cedar Lake include 109th Avenue, 117th Avenue and 203rd Avenue. The pattern also occurs in Waukegan Illinois with Washington Street being the baseline between N/S nearby municipalities such as Gurnee,Park City,and North Chicago continue with the Waukegan numbering pattern. Northwest Indiana, also known as The Calumet Region, or just The Region, is comprised of Lake, Porter, LaPorte, Newton, and Jasper counties in Indiana. ... Whiting is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States. ... Location in the state of Indiana Coordinates: , Country State County Lake Incorporated 1884 Government  - Mayor Thomas McDermott, Jr. ... Munster is a town in Lake County, Indiana, United States. ... Highland is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Indiana: Highland, Lake County, Indiana Highland, Vanderburgh County, Indiana This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Griffith is a town located in Lake County, Indiana and Calumet Township of Lake County, USA. It is a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, and is located in The Region of Northwest Indiana. ... This article is about the city. ... Lake County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. ...

Grid

Major mile streets

	East-West Streets		North-South Streets
Mile	Address number	Street name	Address number	Street name	Minor street letter
12	9600 N	(Golf Road)
11	8800 N	(Dempster Street)	8800 W	East River Road
10	8000 N	(Oakton Street)	8000 W	Pacific Avenue	P
9	7200 N	Touhy Avenue	7200 W	Harlem Avenue	O
8	6400 N	Devon Avenue	6400 W	Narragansett Avenue (Ridgeland Avenue in the Suburbs)	N
7	5600 N	Bryn Mawr Avenue	5600 W	Central Avenue	M
6	4800 N	Lawrence Avenue	4800 W	Cicero Ave	L
5	4000 N	Irving Park Road	4000 W	Pulaski Road (Formerly: Crawford Avenue)	K
4	3200 N	Belmont Avenue	3200 W	Kedzie Avenue
3	2400 N	Fullerton Avenue	2400 W	Western Avenue
2	1600 N	North Avenue	1600 W	Ashland Avenue
1	800 N	Chicago Avenue	800 W	Halsted Street
0	0 N/S	Madison Street	0 E/W	State Street
1	1200 S	Roosevelt Road	800 E	Cottage Grove Avenue
2	2200 S	Cermak Road	1600 E	Stony Island Avenue
3	3100 S	31st Street	2000 E	Jeffery Blvd
4	3900 S	Pershing Road	2400 E	Yates Avenue
5	4700 S	47th Street	3200 E	Brandon Avenue
6	5500 S	Garfield Blvd.	4000 E	Avenue C
7	6300 S	63rd Street
8	7100 S	71st Street
9	7900 S	79th Street
10	8700 S	87th Street
11	9500 S	95th Street
12	10300 S	103rd Street
13	11100 S	111th Street
14	11900 S	119th Street
15	12700 S	127th Street

Many streets in downtown Chicago are considered major streets: Image File history File links Illinois_43. ... See also U.S. 41 U.S. 45 Illinois State Route 43 is a major north-south state road that runs from the large intersection of Illinois State Route 120 (Belvidere Road) and U.S. Highway 41 (Skokie Highway) in Waukegan south through the city of Chicago to U.S... Devon Avenue (IPA pronunciation: ) is a major east-west thoroughfare in the Chicago metropolitan area. ... Image File history File links Illinois_50. ... See also U.S. 50 U.S. 51 U.S. 52 Illinois Route 50 is a north-south state road in northeastern Illinois. ... Image File history File links Illinois_19. ... See also US 20 Illinois Route 19 is a state road in northeastern Illinois. ... Pulaski Road is a major north-south thoroughfare in the city of Chicago, at 4000 W., or exactly five miles west of State Street. ... Belmont Avenue (3200 N.) is a major east-west street on the North Side of Chicago. ... Western Avenue near the CTA Pink Line station. ... Image File history File links Illinois_64. ... See also U.S. 62 Interstate 64 U.S. 66 U.S. 67 Illinois Route 64 is an east-west road in north-central Illinois. ... In the City of Chicago, Chicago Avenue is a major east-west arterial that runs just north of downtown Chicago. ... Image File history File links Illinois_1. ... The sign on Wrigley Field Halsted Street is a major north-south street in Chicago, Illinois. ... Madison Street is a major east-west thoroughfare in Chicago, Illinois. ... State Street is the name given to one of the major thoroughfares in Chicago, Illinois. ... Roosevelt Road, sometimes called 12th Street, is a major east-west thoroughfare in the city of Chicago and its western suburbs. ... Cermak Road, formerly 22nd Street, is a major east-west artery on Chicagos south side and western suburbs. ... Stony Island Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the city of Chicago, designated 1600 E in Chicagos street numbering system. ... Image File history File links US_12. ... Image File history File links US_20. ... 95th Street is a major east-west thoroughfare on Chicagos South Side and in the southwest suburbs, designated as 9500 South in Chicagos address system, and therefore 11 miles south of Madison Street. ...

Downtown

• North/South:
  • Canal Street (500 W)
  • Wacker Drive (400 W)
  • Franklin Street (300 W)
  • Wells Street (200 W)
  • LaSalle Street (150 W)
  • Clark Street (100 W)
  • Dearborn Street (36 W)
  • State Street (1E/1W)
  • Wabash Avenue (44 E)
  • Michigan Avenue (100 E)
  • Columbus Drive (300 E)
  • McClurg Court (400 E)

• East/West:
  • Oak Street (1000 N)
  • Chicago Avenue (800 N)
  • Huron Street(700 N)
  • Ohio Street (600 N)
  • Illinois Street (500 N)
  • Grand Avenue (450 N)
  • Kinzie Street (400 N)
  • Wacker Drive (300 N)
  • Lake Street (200 N)
  • Randolph Street (150 N)
  • Washington Street (100 N)
  • Madison Street (1N/1S)
  • Monroe Street (100 S)
  • Adams Street (200 S)
  • Jackson Boulevard (300 S)
  • Van Buren Street (400 S)
  • Congress Parkway (500 S), leads to the Eisenhower Expressway
  • Harrison Street (600 S)
  • Polk Street (800 S)

All three levels of Wacker Drive, east of Columbus Drive, including a ramp between the upper and lower (middle) levels Wacker Drive is a major street in Chicago, Illinois, United States, running along the south side of the main branch and the east side of the south branch of the... LaSalle Street is a major north-south street in Chicago. ... Chicagos Clark Street is occasionally a diagonal, and occasionally a north-south street running near the shore of Lake Michigan from the city limits with Evanston (where it is called Chicago Avenue, and further north, Green Bay Road) south to Cermak Road. ... The Michigan Avenue Bridge across the Chicago River. ... Oak Street is a very prestigious shopping destination in Chicago. ... All three levels of Wacker Drive, east of Columbus Drive, including a ramp between the upper and lower (middle) levels Wacker Drive is a major street in Chicago, Illinois, United States, running along the south side of the main branch and the east side of the south branch of the... Randolph Street is a street in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It runs east-west through the Chicago Loop, carrying westbound traffic west from Michigan Avenue across the Chicago River on the Randolph Street Bridge, interchanging with the Kennedy Expressway (I-90/I-94), and continuing west. ... The Dwight D. Eisenhower Expressway, formerly called Congress Parkway, is the main Interstate highway west from the Chicago Loop. ...

Secondary streets

• East/West:
  • 7600 N- Howard Street
  • 6800 N- Pratt Avenue
  • 6000 N- Peterson Avenue, part of U.S. Highway 14
  • 5200 N- Foster Avenue
  • 4600 N- Wilson Avenue (not a half-mile)
  • 4400 N- Montrose Avenue
  • 3600 N- Addison Street
  • 2800 N- Diversey Avenue
  • 2000 N- Armitage Avenue
  • 1200 N- Division Street
  • 1600 S- 16th Street
  • 2600 S- 26th Street

The half-mile numbered streets on the South Side are all secondary streets: 35th, 43rd, 51st, 59th, etc.; all are numbered aside from Marquette Road, running at 6700 S, west from Martin Luther King Jr. Drive (400 E) to the city's western limit at Cicero Ave (4800 W), near Midway Airport. East of King to near Lake Michigan at 2400 E, it is called 67th Street, and Marquette is aligned one block to the north on what would be 66th Street. U.S. Highway 14 (U.S. 14), an east-west route, is one of the original United States highways of 1926. ... Foster Avenue (5200 N.) is a major east-west street on the North Side of Chicago. ... Diversey Parkway (2800 N.) is a major east-west street on the North Side of Chicago. ... See also U.S. 50 U.S. 51 U.S. 52 Illinois Route 50 is a north-south state road in northeastern Illinois. ... Chicago-Midway Airport Chicago-Midway International Airport (IATA: MDW, ICAO: KMDW), also known simply as Midway Airport is an airport in Chicago, Illinois, located on the citys southwest side, eight miles from Chicagos Loop. ... --67. ...

• North/South:
  • 8400 W- Cumberland Avenue
  • 6800 W- Oak Park Avenue
  • 6000 W- Austin Avenue
  • 5200 W- Laramie Avenue
  • 4400 W- Kostner Avenue
  • 3600 W- Central Park Avenue
  • 3400 W- Kimball Avenue (not a half-mile)
  • 2800 W- California Avenue
  • 2000 W- Damen Avenue
  • 1200 W- Racine Avenue
  • 400 E- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Drive (King Drive)
  • 1200 E- Woodlawn Avenue
  • 2000 E- Jeffery Boulevard
  • 2800 E- Torrence Avenue
  • 3000 E- Commercial Avenue (not a half-mile)
  • 3600 E- Ewing Avenue

(No part of Golf Road, Dempster Street, or Oakton Street actually lies within the boundaries of Chicago. These streets are included for reference, since they are a continuation of the Chicago mile street pattern into the suburbs.)

The numbering system is also copied in Milwaukee.^{[citation needed]} For other places with the same name, see Milwaukee (disambiguation). ...

Diagonal Streets

The following streets run diagonally through Chicago's grid system on all or part of their courses. These streets tend to form major 5 or 6-way intersections. In many cases they were Indian trails, or were among the earliest streets established in the city.

• N. Rogers Avenue
• N. Ridge Avenue/Boulevard
• N. Broadway Street
• N. Clark Street
• N. Rush Street
• N. Lincoln Avenue
• N. Clybourn Avenue
• N. Kingsbury Street
• N. Elston Avenue
• N. Avondale Avenue
• N. Milwaukee Avenue
• N. Northwest Highway
• W. Higgins Avenue
• W. Grand Avenue
• W. Lake Street
• W. 5th Avenue
• N. and W. Ogden Avenue
• S. Blue Island Avenue
• S. Canalport
• S. Archer Avenue
• W. Columbus Avenue
• S. Vincennes Avenue
• S. Anthony Avenue
• S. South Chicago Avenue
• S. Exchange Avenue
• S. Indianapolis Avenue

Broadway Street or more commonly Broadway is a major street in Chicagos Lakeview, Uptown, and Edgewater neighboorhoods, running diagonally from Diversey Parkway (2800 North) to Lawrence Avenue (4800 North), and north-south from Lawrence to Devon Avenue (6400 North). ... Rush Street is a street in the Near North Side community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. ... Lincoln Avenue is a major diagonal thoroughfare of the north side of city of Chicago. ... Milwaukee Avenue is a major diagonal street in the city of Chicago. ... Grand Avenue is a major east-west arterial surface street in the city of Chicago and nearby DuPage County, although it deviates somewhat from Chicagos grid system, as it is diagonal west of Western Avenue. ... Lake Street is a road in Chicagoland which is part of U.S. Route 20. ... Blue Island Avenue is a diagonal street in the city of Chicago, Illinois that once led to a ridge of land that early pioneers gave the name Blue Island because at a distance it looked like an island in the prairie. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Highways

Interstates in Chicago

The city of Chicago proper has seven major interstate highways crossing through it. However, the various roadways are more typically known to Chicagoans not by their Interstate numbers but rather by various given names. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 473 pixelsFull resolution‎ (2,348 × 1,389 pixels, file size: 200 KB, MIME type: image/png) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 473 pixelsFull resolution‎ (2,348 × 1,389 pixels, file size: 200 KB, MIME type: image/png) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... A typical rural stretch of Interstate highway, with two lanes in each direction separated by a large grassy median, and with cross-traffic limited to overpasses and underpasses. ...

Expressways in Chicago

• The Kennedy Expressway (formerly the "North-West Expressway") runs from O'Hare International Airport east and south to downtown Chicago. It interchanges with the Northwest Tollway and the Tri-State Tollway near Cumberland Avenue on the city's far northwest side (not far from its western terminus at O'Hare), with the Edens Expressway near Montrose Avenue on the city's near northwest side, and with the Dan Ryan and Eisenhower Expressways and with Congress Parkway at its southern terminus downtown at The Circle Interchange near the Chicago Loop. The portion from O'Hare to the interchange with Northwest Highway and the Tri-State is Interstate 190; the remainder is signed as Interstate 90. Interstate 94 is overlaid on Interstate 90 from the junction with the Edens south to the southern terminus of the expressway.

• The Edens Expressway runs south from the Cook County line (Lake-Cook Road) near Northbrook to its interchange with the Kennedy Expressway near Montrose. The Edens Spur (formally a part of the Tri-State Tollway) splits off near the north end to interchange with the mainline Tri-state. All of the Edens except for the small portion north of where the Edens Spur splits off, and all of the Edens Spur, is signed as Interstate 94; the northernmost section is signed as U.S. Highway 41. North of the northern terminus U.S. 41 continues north into Lake County as Skokie Highway. U.S. 41 is overlaid on Interstate 94 from the junction with the Edens Spur to the Skokie Road exit in Skokie.

• The Dan Ryan Expressway runs south from The Circle Interchange (where it interchanges with the Kennedy and Eisenhower Expressways and with Congress Parkway) near the Chicago Loop, through the Spaghetti Bowl where it interchanges with the Stevenson Expressway (Interstate 55), then past an interchange with the Chicago Skyway near 66th Street, to its southern terminus in south Chicago, where it interchanges with the Bishop Ford Freeway and continues southwest through south Chicago and the southern suburbs toward Champaign-Urbana. The Dan Ryan is signed as Interstate 94 until it interchanges with the Bishop Ford Freeway and Interstate 57; the Dan Ryan is then signed as the latter (although for the purposes of local traffic reports and conversation, the Dan Ryan is usually considered to end at the Interstate 57 interchange). The portion between The Circle Interchange and the junction with the Chicago Skyway is overlaid with Interstate 90. Construction Note: There are normally express and local lanes running through downtown Chicago. At this time, the local lanes are all closed for construction and appear to be likely to remain so for quite a while.

• The Eisenhower Expressway (Interstate 290; formerly "Congress Expressway") runs from The Circle Interchange near the Loop almost due west to Chicago's western suburbs, interchanging with the Tri-State Tollway and the eastern terminus of the Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway (Interstate 88) near Hillside, Illinois, after which it turns northwest (as the "Eisenhower extension") and eventually terminates at the Northwest Tollway near Schaumburg. The name "Congress Parkway" persists for the short section east of The Circle Interchange, which connects the three major expressways to Lake Shore Drive (U.S. 41).

• The Stevenson Expressway (Interstate 55) has its northern terminus at Lake Shore Drive near the McCormick Place convention center. From the junction with Lake Shore Drive, the Stevenson runs southwest to the Spaghetti Bowl where it interchanges with the Dan Ryan before heading to the south and southwestern neighborhoods of Chicago. The Stevenson then continues past Chicago Midway International Airport and out of Chicago. After leaving Chicago it intersects with the Tri-State Tollway and then heads southwest out of the Chicago area toward Joliet (where it intersects Interstate 80) and on into central Illinois.

• Interstate 57 runs from the junction of the Dan Ryan Expressway and Bishop Ford Freeway south-southwest to the southern suburbs. Known originally as the "Dan Ryan West Leg", the name has since dropped from common usage.

• The Bishop Ford Freeway (originally named the Calumet Expressway, and still referred to as such in some local traffic reoprts)starts at the southern terminus of the Dan Ryan Expressway and heads first southeast and then south through southern Chicago and into Chicago's southern suburbs, where it intersects with the western end of the Kingery Expressway and the eastern end of the Tri-State Tollway, then continues on further into the south suburbs before downgrading to a surface highway and eventually terminating into Dixie Highway (Illinois Route 1) south of Crete, Illinois. The portion of the Bishop Ford Freeway north of the interchange with the Kingery Expressway is signed as Interstate 94; south of that point it is signed as Illinois Route 394.

• The Chicago Skyway angles off from the Dan Ryan Expressway near 66th Street and heads southeast toward Indiana. Whether or not the Skyway is part of Interstate 90 is a matter of some debate. The eastern end of the Skyway ends with toll bridge over the Little Calumet River and (incidentially) the Indiana state line; on the other side of the state line the Skyway ends at the western terminus of the Indiana Toll Road.

• The Tri-State Tollway only enters Chicago at one point: its interchange with the Kennedy Expressway and North-West Tollway on the far northwest side. Otherwise, the Tri-State circumvents the city of Chicago entirely, running entirely through the suburbs from its northern terminus near the Wisconsin border to its southern terminus at the interchange with the Bishop Ford Freeway and the western end of the Kingery Expressway. North of the junction with the Edens Spur the Tri-State is signed as Interstate 94; south of this it is signed as Interstate 294, and the southern part of that is overlaid by Interstate 80 (which continues east past the eastern terminus of Interstate 294 as the Kingery Expressway and on into Indiana).

South Lake Shore Drive, looking north into the heart of the city

• Lake Shore Drive is a major highway running along the Lake Michigan shoreline from Hayes Drive (63rd Street) in southern Chicago to the intersection of Hollywood Avenue and Sheridan Road in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood. For most of its length, Lake Shore Drive is signed as U.S. Highway 41. Parts of Lake Shore Drive are constructed at or near expressway grade, but there are a number of at-grade intersections, especially near downtown. Nonetheless, "LSD" (as it is often referred to) is a major arterial with a great deal of cultural as well as transportation significance to Chicagoans.

The Kennedy Expressway is a 16 mile (26 km) long highway that travels northwest from the Chicago loop to OHare Airport. ... OHare International Airport (IATA: ORD, ICAO: KORD, FAA LID: ORD) is an airport located in Chicago, Illinois, United States, 17 miles (27 km) northwest of the Chicago Loop. ... The Northwest Tollway in Illinois is a 79 mile (127 km) segment of Interstate 90 from Interstate 190 in far northwest Chicago to Illinois State Route 75, one mile south of the Wisconsin state line. ... The Tri-State Tollway is a U.S. toll road maintained by the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority in northeastern Illinois. ... Edens Expressway (also known as the Edens Parkway and the Edens Superhighway) is the main major expressway north from the city of Chicago. ... The Dan Ryan Expressway in 1970. ... The Dwight D. Eisenhower Expressway, formerly called Congress Parkway, is the main Interstate highway west from the Chicago Loop. ... 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U.S. highways

• U.S. Highway 41 enters through the southeastern part of the city from Indiana as a part of U.S. 12 and U.S. 20, underneath the bridge linking the Chicago Skyway and the Indiana Toll Road. It traverses the southeast side of the city until it becomes South Shore Drive, and eventually Lake Shore Drive. U.S. 41 then departs from Lake Shore Drive at Foster Avenue. From Foster Avenue, U.S. 41 continues northwest on Lincoln Avenue, finally exiting Chicago at Devon Avenue into the suburb of Lincolnwood.
• U.S. Highway 14 splits off from U.S. Highway 41 at Bryn Mawr Avenue by Lake Michigan on the north side of the city. U.S. 14 then recrosses U.S. 41 and eventually exits the city as Caldwell Avenue.
• U.S. Highway 12 and U.S. Highway 20 enter the city proper on the far south side on 95th Street at Western Avenue. They stay together until they join U.S. 41 in the south side, and exit together into Indiana. U.S. 12 crosses back into Chicago by O'Hare Airport concurrent with U.S. 45.
• U.S. Highway 45 remains mostly outside of Chicago, crossing Interstate 190 as a part of U.S. 12 and U.S. 20. It follows the Des Plaines River as the Des Plaines River Road or Mannheim Road.

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Driving distances

The driving distances listed below are approximate estimates; the actual distance may vary slightly based on the starting point, route taken or what is considered the "city center" from Chicago to another city. You can generally assume that each distance listed is the shortest distance from Chicago to another city.

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Interesting facts

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• On the first day of implementing the modern street numbering system 75% of the mail was incorrectly addressed.
• There were thirteen streets named Washington at the beginning of the 20th century.
• Chicago's longest thoroughfare is Western Avenue at 23.5 miles.
• Milwaukee and Elston Avenues (both northwest-southeast diagonals) intersect twice—at 800 north (at Fry Street, just north of Chicago Avenue) and again at 6200 north (at Melvina Avenue, just north of Peterson Avenue). So do Princeton & Harvard, two curved streets on the south side. Sheridan Road crosses Broadway twice, first at 3850 north (between Grace and Dakin), and again near 4400 north (at Montrose).
• Only Wacker Drive has buildings addressed north, south, east and west. It is the only road in Chicago to exist on both sides of both Madison Street and State Street.
• Some streets are named after all the past presidents, in order, but they skipped Tyler purposely. (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20070219/ai_n18623120)

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References

See also

• Multilevel streets in Chicago (including Wacker Drive)
• Route 66
• Bicycling in Chicago
• Chicago Pedway
• Chicago Tunnel Company
• La Salle Street Tunnel
• Van Buren Street Tunnel
• Washington Street Tunnel
• Philo Carpenter
• Matthew Laflin
• Horatio G. Loomis
• Philip Maxwell

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