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Roads and expressways in Chicago

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The Eisenhower Expressway crossing under Ashland Avenue, looking east toward downtown. The CTA's Blue Line travels along the median of the expressway.

Roads and expressways in Chicago summarizes the main thoroughfares and the numbering system used in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs.

Street layoutEdit

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Much of Chicago's street system follows a grid pattern.

Chicago's streets were laid out in a grid that grew from the city's original townsite plan platted by James Thompson. Streets following the Public Land Survey System section lines later became arterial streets in outlying sections. As new additions to the city were platted, city ordinance required them to be laid out with eight streets to the mile in one direction and 16 in the other direction. A scattering of diagonal streets, many of them originally Native American trailsTemplate:Citation needed, also cross the city. Many additional diagonal streets were recommended in the Plan of Chicago, but only the extension of Ogden Avenue was ever constructed. In the 1950s and 1960s, a network of superhighways was built radiating from the city center.<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>

As the city grew and annexed adjacent towns, problems arose with duplicate street names and a confusing numbering system based on the Chicago River. On June 22, 1908, the city council adopted a system proposed by Edward P. Brennan;<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> amended June 21, 1909. The changes were effective September 1, 1909 for most of the city.<ref name=1909snc>Template:Cite book</ref>

Addresses in Chicago and some suburbs are numbered outward from baselines at State Street, which runs north and south, and Madison Street, which runs east and west.

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The division of Chicago's directional address system is at State Street - separating East (E) from West (W), and Madison Street - North (N) from South (S).

A book was published in 1909 by The Chicago Directory Company indexing the old and new street numbers for most of Chicago. This volume is available online in PDF format indexed by initial letter, Plan of Re-Numbering, City of Chicago, August 1909.<ref name="1909snc"/> The opening text of the book says: EXPLANATORY Template:Cquote

The downtown area did not conform to this system until April 1, 1911, per an amendment to the law on June 20, 1910. Downtown was defined as Lake Michigan on the east, Roosevelt Road (Twelfth Street) on the south, and the Chicago River on the north and west. The addition to cover downtown was published, and is also on line as a pdf indexed by downtown street name.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

This additional paragraph explained the downtown changes:

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Chicago house numbers are generally assigned at the rate of 800 to a mile. The only exceptions are from Madison to 31st Street, just south of downtown. Roosevelt Road (previously Twelfth St) is one mile south of Madison with 1200 addresses to the mile, Cermak Road (previously 22nd Street) is two miles south of Madison with 1000 addresses to the mile, and 31st Street (3100 S) is three miles south of Madison with 900 addresses to the mile.<ref name="1909snc"/> South of 31st Street, the pattern of 800 to the mile resumes, with 39th Street the next major street, 47th after that, and so on. Individual house numbers are normally assigned at the rate of one per 20 feet of frontage. Thus the last two digits of house numbers generally go only as high as 67 before the next block number is reached. Higher house numbers are found on diagonal streets and have sometimes been assigned by request.

The blocks are normally counted out by "hundreds," so that Chicagoans routinely give directions by saying things such as "about twelve hundred north on Western" or "around twenty-four hundred west on Division" (which both describe the intersection of Western Avenue (2400 W) and Division Street (1200 N)).

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 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.

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. Examples are North Lincoln Avenue and Ogden Avenue, which bends at Madison and changes from North Ogden to West Ogden.

The northernmost street in Chicago is Juneway Terrace (7800 N), just north of Howard Street. The southern boundary is 138th Street. The eastern boundary of Chicago is Avenue A/State Line Road (4100 E) along and south of 106th Street, and the furthest west the city extends is in the portion of O'Hare International Airport that lies in DuPage County, just east of Elmhurst/York Road.

Street namesEdit

Template:See also {{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||date=__DATE__ |$B= {{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||date=__DATE__ |$B= Template:Ambox }} }} 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 street, starting just past Pulaski Road (4000 W), one will cross a mile-long stretch of streets which have names starting with the letter K (From east to west: Keystone (North Side)/Komensky (South Side), Karlov, Kedvale, Keeler, Kildare, Kolin, Kostner, Kenneth, Kilbourn, Kolmar, Kenton, Knox, Kilpatrick, Keating), 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 (S State Line Road) 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 International Airport, undeveloped forest preserve, and a small strip of land connecting O'Hare to the rest of the city and containing only Foster Avenue.

SuburbsEdit

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 54th/Cermak terminus of the Pink Line 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 Template:Frac blocks west of State Street would be called 54th Court (in reality, that is Lotus Avenue in Chicago).

This pattern continues as far west as Plainfield, which has a 252nd Avenue, as far north as Skokie at Central Street (10100 North),<ref>Template:Cite map</ref> and as far south as the southern edge of Will County. Suburbs that follow the Chicago numbering system include Berwyn, Bridgeview, Brookfield, Burbank, Channahon, Chicago Heights, Cicero, Crystal Lake, Elwood, Evergreen Park, Franklin Park, Justice, Lincolnwood, Matteson, Monee, Morris, Morton Grove, Niles, North Chicago, Oak Forest, Oak Lawn, Orland Park, Oswego, River Grove, Rosemont, Skokie, Westchester, unincorporated parts of Des Plaines, Glenview, and other parts of Cook County, Will, DuPage, Kendall, and Grundy Counties. Other suburbs, including Evanston, Park Ridge, Oak Park, Glenview and Wilmette use their own numbering systems. The six "collar" counties (DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry, and Will) use State and Madison as a base line. For example, 32W000 in DuPage County is 32 miles west of State Street, 38000 in Lake County would be 38 miles north of Madison Street, and is normally used without the direction letter. In these counties, unlike Chicago, numbering is 1,000 numbers to the mile, so in DuPage County Template:Frac miles west is 32W500.

Some Chicago suburbs in adjoining Northwest Indiana also use the Chicago numbering system. These include East Chicago, Whiting, and Hammond. There are even examples further south in Lake County in Dyer and Schererville such as 205th Place through 215th Street (these examples coordinate with the Chicago grid, not the Gary street system). Other municipalities, such as Highland, and Griffith are based on the Gary, Indiana numbering system, beginning with 5th Avenue in Gary and increasing numerically as one travels southward. Examples in Scheider in the far south of Lake County, Indiana go as far down as 244th Avenue.

The aforementioned pattern also occurs in Waukegan, Illinois, with Washington Street being the baseline between north and south. Nearby municipalities such as Gurnee, Park City, and North Chicago continue with the Waukegan numbering pattern, while rural areas in Lake County, Illinois follow the Chicago grid.

GridEdit

Mile roadsEdit

East–West Streets North–South Streets
Mile Address number Street name Route designation Address number Street name Route designation
39 39000 W Orchard RoadTemplate:Efn Template:Jct (Kane)
38 38000 W Peck Road; Edgelawn Drive Template:Jct (Kane)
37 37000 W Randall RoadTemplate:Efn Template:Jct (Kane) Template:Jct (Kendall)
36 36000 W Lincolnway Street; Lake Street Template:Jct
Template:Frac 35500 W McLean BoulevardTemplate:Efn Template:Jct
35 35000 W 5th Street; River Street Template:Jct
Template:Frac 34500 W IL 31; Mitchell Road (276th Avenue) Template:Jct
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34 34000 W Ohio Street (272nd Avenue)Template:Efn
Template:Frac 33500 W Farnsworth Avenue; Ridge Road (268th Avenue)Template:Efn Template:Jct (Grundy)
33 33000 W Kautz Road (264th Avenue)Template:Efn Template:Jct
Template:Frac 26000 N 8th Street 32500 W Eola Road (260th Avenue)Template:Efn Template:Jct (DuPage)
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32 25600 N 12th Street; McGaw Road 32000 W Beverly Road (256th Avenue)
Template:Frac 25200 N 16th Street 31500 W 252nd Avenue (Normantown Road)
31 24800 N 20th Street; Townline Road 31000 W 248th AvenueTemplate:Efn
Template:Frac 24400 N 24th Street 30500 W Munger Road (244th Avenue)Template:Efn Template:Jct (DuPage)
30 24000 N Buckley Road Template:Jct 30000 W IL 59 (240th Avenue) Template:Jct
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29 23200 N Erhart Road 29000 W Rickert Drive; Book Road (232nd Avenue) Template:Jct
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28 22400 N Dunbar RoadTemplate:Efn 28000 W Plainfield–Naperville Road (224th Avenue)Template:Efn Template:Jct (DuPage)
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27 21600 N Hawley Street Template:Jct (Lake) 27000 W Barrington RoadTemplate:Efn (216th Avenue)
26 20800 N Allanson Road 20400 W Bartlett Road
25 20000 N Crystal Lake Avenue 20300 W Hough Street Template:Jct
24 19200 N Indian Creek Road Template:Jct 20000 W Summit Street
23 18400 N Miller Road; Rakow Road 18000 W Roselle Road Template:Jct (DuPage)
22 17600 N Half Day Road; Prairie Avenue Template:Jct 16600 W IL 53; Meacham Road (176th Avenue) Template:Jct
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21 16800 N Park AvenueTemplate:Efn 16200 W Rohlwing RoadTemplate:Efn (168th Avenue) Template:Jct
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20.5 16400 N Aptakisic RoadTemplate:Efn 16000 W Barker Avenue
20 16000 N Greenwood Avenue 15800 W Lemont RoadTemplate:Efn (160th Avenue) Template:Jct (DuPage)
19.5 15600 N Deerfield Road 15400 W Wilke Road
19 15200 N Roger Williams Avenue 15000 W Fairview AvenueTemplate:Efn (152nd Avenue) Template:Jct (DuPage)
18.5 14800 N Ridgelee Road 14600 W Williams Street; Fernandez Avenue
18 14400 N Commercial Avenue 14200 W Ardmore Avenue; Cedar RoadTemplate:Efn (144th Avenue) Template:Jct (DuPage)
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17.5 14000 N Dundee Road Template:Jct 13800 W Goebbert Road
17 13600 N Walters Avenue 13400 W Busse Road; Kingery HighwayTemplate:Efn (136th Avenue) Template:Jct
16.5 13200 N Tower Road 13100 W Linneman Road
16 12800 N Palatine RoadTemplate:Efn 12800 W Elmhurst Road; York RoadTemplate:Efn Template:Jct (DuPage)
15.5 12400 N Willow RoadTemplate:Efn 12400 W Garfield Street; Marshall Drive
15 12000 N Winnetka Road 12000 W Mt. Prospect Road; County Line RoadTemplate:Efn
14.5 11600 N Illinois Road 11600 W Taft Avenue; Warrington Road
14 11200 N Lake Avenue 11200 W Wolf Road Template:Jct
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13.5 10800 N Wilmette Avenue 10800 W Gilbert Avenue; Willow Springs RoadTemplate:Efn Template:Jct
13 10400 N Glenview Road 10400 W Mannheim RoadTemplate:Efn Template:Jct
12.5 10000 N Old Orchard RoadTemplate:Efn Template:Jct 10000 W Scott Street; West AvenueTemplate:Efn
12 9600 N Golf Road Template:Jct 9600 W 25th AvenueTemplate:Efn (96th Avenue) Template:Jct
11.5 9200 N Church Street 9200 W 17th Avenue; Maple AvenueTemplate:Efn
11 8800 N Dempster Street Template:Jct 8800 W 9th Avenue; East River RoadTemplate:Efn Template:Jct
Template:Frac 8400 N Main Street 8400 W 1st Avenue; Cumberland AvenueTemplate:Efn Template:Jct
10 8000 N Oakton Steet 8000 W Pacific AvenueTemplate:Efn Template:Jct
Template:Frac 7600 N Howard Street 7600 W Oriole AvenueTemplate:Efn
9 7200 N Touhy Avenue Template:Jct 7200 W Harlem Avenue (72nd Avenue) Template:Jct File:US 66 (historic).svg US 66
8.5 6800 N Pratt Boulevard 6800 W Oak Park Avenue; Newcastle AvenueTemplate:Efn (68th Avenue)
8 6400 N Devon Avenue Template:Jct (DuPage) 6400 W Narragansett Avenue; Nagle AvenueTemplate:Efn (64th Avenue)
Template:Frac 6000 N Peterson Avenue 6000 W Austin Avenue (60th Avenue)
7 5600 N Bryn Mawr Avenue 5600 W Central Avenue (56th Avenue)
Template:Frac 5200 N Foster Avenue 5200 W Laramie Avenue (52nd Avenue)
6 4800 N Lawrence Avenue 4800 W Cicero AvenueTemplate:Efn (48th Avenue) Template:Jct
Template:Frac 4400 N Montrose Avenue 4400 W Kostner Avenue (44th Avenue)
5 4000 N Irving Park Road Template:Jct 4000 W Pulaski RoadTemplate:Efn (40th Avenue)
Template:Frac 3600 N Addison Street 3600 W Central Park Avenue
4 3200 N Belmont Avenue 3200 W Kedzie Avenue (32nd Avenue)
Template:Frac 2800 N Diversey Parkway 2800 W California Avenue (28th Avenue)Template:Efn
3 2400 N Fullerton Avenue 2400 W Western AvenueTemplate:Efn (24th Avenue)
Template:Frac 2000 N Armitage Avenue 2000 W Damen Avenue (20th Avenue)Template:Efn
2 1600 N North Avenue Template:Jct 1600 W Ashland Avenue (16th Avenue)
Template:Frac 1200 N Division Street 1200 W Racine Avenue (12th Avenue)
1 800 N Chicago Avenue 800 W Halsted Street (8th Avenue) Template:Jct
Template:Frac 400 N Kinzie Street 400 W Sedgwick Street (4th Avenue); Stewart Avenue
0 0 N/S Madison Street 0 E/W State Street (Middle Avenue) Template:Jct
Template:Frac 600 S Harrison Street (6th Street) Template:Jct 400 E Martin Luther King Jr. Drive (South Parkway) Template:Jct
1 1200 S Roosevelt Road (12th Street) Template:Jct 800 E Cottage Grove Avenue
Template:Frac 1600 S 16th Street 1200 E Woodlawn Avenue
2 2200 S Cermak Road (22nd Street)Template:Efn 1600 E Stony Island Avenue; Volbrecht Road
Template:Frac 2600 S 26th Street 2000 E Jeffery Boulevard
3 3100 S 31st Street (Oak Brook Road) Template:Jct (DuPage) 2400 E Yates Boulevard
Template:Frac 3500 S 35th Street 2800 E Burnham Avenue
4 3900 S Pershing Road (39th Street) 3200 E Brandon Avenue
Template:Frac 4300 S 43rd StreetTemplate:Efn 3600 E Avenue L
5 4700 S 47th StreetTemplate:Efn 4000 E Avenue C
Template:Frac 5100 S 51st Street; Hyde Park Boulevard 4400 E Manor Avenue
6 5500 S Garfield Boulevard; 55th Street Template:Jct (DuPage)
Template:Frac 5900 S 59th StreetTemplate:Efn
7 6300 S 63rd Street Template:Jct (DuPage)
Template:Frac 6700 S 67th Street; Marquette Road
8 7100 S 71st Street
Template:Frac 7500 S 75th Street Template:Jct (DuPage)
9 7900 S 79th StreetTemplate:Efn Template:Jct
Template:Frac 8300 S 83rd StreetTemplate:Efn
10 8700 S 87th StreetTemplate:Efn Template:Jct (DuPage)
Template:Frac 9100 S 91st Street
11 9500 S 95th Street Template:Jct
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Template:Frac 9900 S 99th Street
12 10300 S 103rd Street
Template:Frac 10700 S 107th Street
13 11100 S 111th StreetTemplate:Efn Template:Jct
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Template:Frac 11500 S 115th StreetTemplate:Efn
14 11900 S 119th StreetTemplate:Efn
Template:Frac 12300 S 123rd StreetTemplate:Efn
15 12700 S 127th StreetTemplate:Efn Template:Jct
Template:Frac 13100 S 131st Street
16 13500 S 135th Street;
Romeo RoadTemplate:Efn		 Template:Jct (Will)
Template:Frac 13900 S 139th Street
17 14300 S 143rd StreetTemplate:Efn Template:Jct
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Template:Frac 14700 S 147th Street Template:Jct
18 15100 S 151st Street; Lockport StreetTemplate:Efn Template:Jct
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Template:Frac 15500 S 155th StreetTemplate:Efn Template:Jct
19 15900 S 159th StreetTemplate:Efn Template:Jct
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Template:Frac 16300 S 163rd StreetTemplate:Efn
20 16700 S 167th StreetTemplate:Efn
Template:Frac 17100 S 171st Street Template:Jct
21 17500 S 175th StreetTemplate:Efn Template:Jct (Will)
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Template:Frac 17900 S 179th Street
22 18300 S 183rd StreetTemplate:Efn
Template:Frac 18700 S 187th StreetTemplate:Efn Template:Jct
23 19100 S 191st StreetTemplate:Efn Template:Jct
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Template:Frac 19500 S 195th Street
24 19900 S Vollmer Road; Jefferson Street Template:Jct
Template:Frac 20300 S 203rd Street; Joe Orr Road
25 20700 S 207th StreetTemplate:Efn
Template:Frac 21100 S Lincoln Highway Template:Jct
26 21500 S 215th Street
Template:Frac 21900 S 26th Street (219th Street)
27 22300 S 30th Street; Laraway Road
(223rd Street)		 Template:Jct (Will)
Template:Frac 22700 S 34th Street (227th Street)
28 23100 S Delaney Road; Steger RoadTemplate:Efn Template:Jct
29 23900 S Stuenkel Road; University Parkway
30 24700 S Bluff Road Template:Jct (Will)
Template:Frac 25100 S Manhattan Road Template:Jct (Will)
31 25500 S Monee-Manhattan Road; Arsenal Road Template:Jct (Will)
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Template:Frac 25900 S Crete-Monee Road Template:Jct (Will)
Template:Frac 26700 S Bemes Road
33 27100 S Pauling Road Template:Jct (Will)
Template:Frac 27500 S Blodgett Road; Marseilles RoadTemplate:Efn Template:Jct (Grundy)
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34 27900 S Eagle Lake Road
Template:Frac 28300 S Joliet Road; North Peotone RoadTemplate:Efn Template:Jct (Will)
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35 28700 S Beecher Road; Indiana Avenue Template:Jct (Will)
36 29500 S Wilmington Road Template:Jct (Will)
37 30300 S Coal City Road; Division StreetTemplate:Efn Template:Jct
38 31100 S Reed Road; Kennedy Road Template:Jct

Template:Notelist (No part of Golf Road, Dempster Street, Oakton Street, Wolf Road, LaGrange Road or 143rd Street to 311th 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.)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

DowntownEdit

The density of main streets in downtown Chicago is greater than in the rest of the city, with some at half-block spacing (just 50 address numbers or one-sixteenth mile from the next parallel street), or block spacing between main streets, unlike the rest of the city where the main streets are spaced at half-mile and mile intervals: Template:Columns-start

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Secondary streetsEdit

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  • East/west:
    • 10000 N – (Old Orchard Road)
    • 9200 N – (Church Street)
    • 8400 N – (Main Street)
    • 7600 N – Howard Street
    • 6800 N – Pratt Avenue
    • 6000 N – File:US 14.svg Peterson Avenue
    • 5200 N – Foster Avenue
    • 4600 N – Wilson Avenue (not a half-mile)
    • 4400 N – Montrose Avenue
    • 3600 N – Addison Street
    • 2800 N – Diversey Parkway
    • 2000 N – Armitage Avenue
    • 1200 N – Division Street
    • 400 N – Kinzie Street
    • 1000 S – Taylor Street (not a half-mile)
    • 1600 S – 16th Street
    • 2600 S – 26th Street
    • 3500 S – 35th Street
    • 4300 S – 43rd Street
    • 5100 S – 51st Street (East Hyde Park Boulevard)
    • 5900 S – 59th Street
    • 6700 S – Marquette Road (67th Street)
    • 7500 S – Template:Jct 75th Street
    • 8300 S – 83rd Street (German Church Road in Willow Springs, Montgomery Road in Aurora)
    • 9100 S – 91st Street
    • 9900 S – 99th Street
    • 10400 S - 104th Street
    • 10700 S – 107th Street
    • 11500 S – 115th Street (Claar Boulevard in Bolingbrook)
    • 12300 S – 123rd Street (McCarthy Road in Palos Park)
    • 13000 S – 130th Street (not a half-mile)
    • 13800 S - 138th Street (boundary of Chicago)

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  • North/south:
    • 9400 W – River Road (not a half-mile)
    • 8400 W – File:Illinois 171.svg 1st Avenue (Cumberland Avenue)
    • 7600 W – Oriole 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 (Homan Avenue) not a half-mile
    • 2800 W – California Avenue
    • 2000 W – Damen Avenue
    • 1200 W – Racine Avenue
    • 400 E – Martin Luther King Jr. Drive (King Drive)
    • 1200 E – Woodlawn Avenue
    • 2000 E – Jeffery Boulevard
    • 2628 E – Torrence Avenue (not a half-mile)
    • 2800 E – Burnham Avenue
    • 3000 E – Commercial Avenue (not a half-mile)
    • 3600 E – Avenue L

Template:Columns-end 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 King Drive (400 E) to the city's western limit at Cicero Avenue (4800 W), near Midway International 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.

(No part of Old Orchard Road, Church Street, or Main 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.)

A similar numbering system is also used in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Diagonal roadsEdit

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. Diagonals are numbered as north–south or east–west streets. Examples are North Lincoln Avenue and Ogden Avenue, which bends at Madison and changes from North Ogden to West Ogden. Template:Div col start

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ExpresswaysEdit

The city of Chicago proper contains seven major Interstate highways.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Roadway Name Numbers Description
Kennedy Expressway
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Template:Jct		 Runs from O'Hare east and south to downtown Chicago. It interchanges with the Jane Addams and the Tri-State Tollways near Cumberland Avenue on the city's far northwest side, with the Edens Expressway near Montrose Avenue on the near northwest side, and with the Dan Ryan and Eisenhower Expressways at its southern terminus downtown at the Jane Byrne Interchange. The portion from O'Hare to the Jane Addams and the Tri-State Tollways is I-190; the remainder is signed as I-90. I-94 is overlaid on I-90 south of the junction with the Edens.
Jane Addams Memorial Tollway
(Northwest Tollway)		 Template:Jct Runs from its complex interchange with the Kennedy Expressway and the Tri-State Tollway through the northwest suburbs towards Rockford and South Beloit.
Edens Expressway
(Skokie Highway)		 Template:Jct
Template:Jct		 Runs south from Park Avenue West in Highland Park to its interchange with the Kennedy Expressway near Montrose. The Edens Spur (formally part of the Tri-State Tollway) splits off near the north end to meet the Tri-State. The Edens south of the Spur is signed as I-94; the section north of the Skokie Road exit in Wilmette is signed as US 41. US 41 continues north as Skokie Highway beyond the northern terminus of the Edens.
Dan Ryan Expressway Template:Jct
Template:Jct		 Runs south from the Jane Byrne Interchange near the Loop to the Bishop Ford Freeway in the Far Southeast Side in Chicago. In between, the Dan Ryan interchanges with the Stevenson Expressway and the Chicago Skyway near 66th Street. The portion between the Jane Byrne Interchange and the junction with the Chicago Skyway is overlaid with I-90.
Eisenhower Expressway
(Congress Expressway)		 Template:Jct
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Template:Jct		 Runs west from the Jane Byrne Interchange to an interchange with the Tri-State Tollway and the eastern terminus of the Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway (I-88) near Hillside, Illinois. Further west, I-290 turns northwest and becomes the "Eisenhower Extension". At the interchange with I-90 near Schaumburg, it continues as IL 53 until eventually terminating at Lake Cook Road. East of the Jane Byrne Interchange, the route continues downtown as Ida B. Wells Drive.
Stevenson Expressway
(Southwest Expressway)		 Template:Jct Runs southwest from Lake Shore Drive to the Tri-State Tollway in Burr Ridge. Along the way, the expressway interchanges with the Dan Ryan before heading to the south and southwestern neighborhoods of Chicago. The Stevenson then continues past Midway Airport and out of Chicago.
Veterans Memorial Tollway
(North–South Tollway)		 Template:Jct Runs south from an interchange with I-290 near Itasca to I-80 near New Lenox. Along the way, I-355 runs through the western suburbs to an interchange with I-88 before continuing south to the interchange with I-55. Then it continues south along Template:Convert of tollway to its southern terminus at I-80.
Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway
(East–West Tollway)		 Template:Jct
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Template:Jct		 Runs from a complex interchange with the Eisenhower Expressway and the Tri-State Tollway west to U.S. Route 30 near Rock Falls. Along the way, the tollway meets another complex interchange with I-355. Then it heads through the western suburbs into north-central Illinois.
Interstate 57
(Dan Ryan West Leg)		 Template:Jct Runs south from the junction of the Dan Ryan Expressway and Bishop Ford Freeway to the southern suburbs. Known originally as the "Dan Ryan West Leg", the name has since dropped from common usage. As such, it is the only freeway within the city of Chicago lacking a formal name.
Bishop Ford Freeway
(Calumet Expressway)		 Template:Jct
Template:Jct		 Runs from the southern terminus of the Dan Ryan Expressway, heads east, then south through the Far Southeast Side in Chicago to the southern suburbs before ending at a junction with the Kingery Expressway and the Tri-State Tollway. South of that point, it continues as IL 394 until IL 1 in Goodenow.
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(Calumet Skyway)		 Template:Jct The Skyway angles off from the Dan Ryan Expressway near 66th Street and heads southeast toward Indiana. The Skyway ends after a toll bridge over the Little Calumet River and the Indiana state line, at which point it becomes the Indiana Toll Road.
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Template:Jct		 Serves as a toll bypass around Chicago. The tollway runs from a combination interchange with the Kingery Expressway and the Bishop Ford Freeway towards an interchange with US 41 just south of the Wisconsin state line. North of the junction with the Edens Spur the Tri-State is signed as I-94; on and south of this it is signed as I-294, the southern part of which is overlaid by I-80.
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Template:Jct		 Located entirely in Lansing, Illinois, this is a three-mile-long expressway running from the interchange with the Bishop Ford Freeway and the Tri-State Tollway to the Illinois/Indiana border.
Lake Shore Drive Template:Jct A major limited-access highway running along the Lake Michigan shoreline from East 67th Street in southern Chicago to Hollywood Avenue in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood. For most of its length, Lake Shore Drive is signed as US 41. Portions of Lake Shore Drive were constructed as an expressway.
Elgin Bypass Template:Jct A five-mile freeway signed as US 20, bypassing Elgin, Illinois. It goes west from the Villa Street interchange, meets IL 25, crosses the Fox River, then meets State Street, McLean Boulevard, and Randall Road before continuing at-grade.
Western Algonquin Bypass Template:Jct A two-and-a-half-mile bypass in Algonquin and Crystal Lake. It has two exits on IL 62 (Algonquin Road) and US 14.
Kingery Highway Template:Jct From Bensenville, the Kingery Highway heads south 18 miles to just south of the Des Plaines River. It is a multi-lane divided limited-access road with grade-separated portions.<ref name=rmchi07>Template:Cite bookTemplate:Page needed</ref><ref name=illat96>Template:Cite book</ref>
Amstutz Expressway Template:Jct A two-mile expressway located entirely in Waukegan, Illinois. It has only one exit at Grand Avenue.
Elgin–O'Hare Tollway
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U.S. RoutesEdit

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Template:Jct The route splits off from U.S. Route 41 at Bryn Mawr Avenue by Lake Michigan on the north side of the city. US 14 then recrosses US 41 and eventually exits the city as Caldwell Avenue.
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Template:Jct The route enters through the southeastern part of the city from Indiana with U.S. Route 12 and U.S. Route 20, underneath the Chicago Skyway Toll Bridge. At 95th Street, when US 12 and US 20 turn west, it continues north along the lakefront, especially via Lake Shore Drive. US 41 then departs from Lake Shore Drive at Foster Avenue. From Foster Avenue, US 41 continues northwest on Lincoln Avenue, finally exiting Chicago at Devon Avenue into the suburb of Lincolnwood.
Template:Jct The route comes north from Kentucky and intersects U.S. Route 12 and U.S. Route 20 at 95th Street west of Chicago. The three routes go north on LaGrange Road, then US 12 and US 45 continue north on Mannheim Road past O'Hare Airport and into Des Plaines. Separating from US 12, it follows the Des Plaines River as Des Plaines River Road, then continues north on Milwaukee Avenue towards Wisconsin.<ref name=rmchi07 /><ref name=illat96 /><ref name=gogm13 />
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County roadsEdit

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.Template:Citation needed

GalleryEdit

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    Interstates in Chicago as of June 2007

  • ChicagoSkyway1104.jpg

    Sunset view of the Chicago Skyway tollbooths at the entrance to the Chicago southbound city limits

  • LakeShoreDrive.jpg

    South Lake Shore Drive, looking north towards downtown.

  • Traffic on US Highway 41 in Foggy Chicago.jpg

    Traffic going southbound on the Kennedy Expressway on a foggy day.

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    The intersection of Madison St and State St is regarded as the "zero-zero point" of Chicago.

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

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