37-653: Ford Freeway can refer to: Bishop Ford Freeway , part of I-94 in the Chicago area Edsel Ford Freeway , part of I-94 in Detroit Gerald R. Ford Freeway (Omaha) , part of I-480 in Nebraska Gerald R. Ford Freeway (Grand Rapids) , part of I-196 in Michigan [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about roads and streets with
74-605: A diamond interchange with Willow Road and enters Northbrook . It crosses under Sanders Road and IL 68 (Dundee Road) and crosses over Sanders Road. It enters Deerfield and terminates at a partial interchange with I-94 just south of Lake-Cook Road, the county line, to which I-294 has full access. The portion of the Borman Expressway that was completed from Gary westward and the Kingery Expressway were originally designated as I-80, I-90, and I-294 from shortly after
111-636: A banker and early advocate for paved roads. He was a sponsor of Illinois's first highway bond issue in 1918. From the southern terminus of the Edens, I-94 follows part or all of several other named highways; joining I-90 on the Kennedy Expressway and the Dan Ryan Expressway through the center of Chicago, following the Bishop Ford Freeway through the southside of Chicago to I-80, where it joins
148-648: A partial interchange with Touhy Avenue. I-294 crosses the Des Plaines River and the Union Pacific Northwest Line , and enters Park Ridge . I-294 has a partial interchange with US 14 (Dempster Street), enters Glenview , and crosses over Northwest Highway and Ballard Road. It has another partial interchange with IL 58 and crosses over the Union Pacific New Line, Central Avenue, IL 21 (Milwaukee Avenue), and Lake Avenue. It has
185-506: Is 53.42 miles (85.97 km) long; 5.32 miles (8.56 km) are shared with I-80. It serves as a bypass around the city of Chicago . I-294 begins at the interchange between I-94 , I-80 , and IL 394 in Lansing . I-94 splits off toward Chicago while I-80/I-294 heads west as an eight-lane tollway and crosses above a railroad track and Thorn Creek in Thornton . The highway crosses under
222-515: Is called the Bishop Ford Freeway, to Cottage Grove Avenue, the route has four lanes (two lanes each way), with six lanes (three lanes each way) between Michigan and Cottage Grove avenues. The freeway connection ramp to Stony Island Avenue has four lanes (two in each direction). I-94 then has six lanes (three in each direction) south to I-80, where it departs the Bishop Ford Freeway (which continues south as Illinois Route 394 [IL 394]) for
259-602: The Edens Superhighway ) is the main major expressway north from the city of Chicago to Northbrook . Only the short portion from the spur ramp to the expressway's end in Highland Park does not carry 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),
296-606: The Gurnee Mills mall, extensive office developments and residential districts in southern Lake County and the North Shore region of Cook County, and Westfield Old Orchard . Entering Illinois from Wisconsin, I-94 becomes the Tri-State Tollway just after exit 1B (Skokie Highway), with eight lanes (four in each direction), until just north of Deerfield Road where it widens further to 10 lanes as it approaches I-294 and
333-490: The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) are partnering to construct a new interchange to connect I-294 to I-57. The primary interchange connections between I-294 and I-57 were completed in 2014, while the remaining ramps except for northbound I-57 to southbound I-294 and northbound I-294 to southbound I-57 were completed on September 11, 2022. The central portion of I-294 between Balmoral Avenue and 95th Street
370-657: The Mile-Long Bridge . I-294 then enters Indian Head Park and has an interchange with I-55 and Joliet Road and turns north. I-294 then passes under Plainfield Road, crosses a small creek, crosses under the Hinsdale Oasis, and enters Hinsdale . I-294 passes under 55th Street, 47th Street, the BNSF Railway Line , and a trail. I-294 then has a cloverleaf interchange with US 34 and enters Oak Brook . I-294 crosses under 31st Street and Cermak Road. I-294 goes through
407-504: The 163rd Street toll plaza. I-294 has a cloverleaf interchange with US Route 6 (US 6; 159th Street) and turns northwest toward an incomplete interchange with I-57 . I-294 then enters Posen and has a partial interchange with IL 83 (147th Street). I-294 turns west to cross the Rock Island District and Kedzie Avenue. I-294 turns northwest, and enters Midlothian . It crosses over South Claire Boulevard, Pulaski Road,
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#1732855503689444-764: The 82nd/83rd street toll plaza. It crosses over 88th Avenue and has an interchange with IL 171 (Archer Avenue), US 45 , US 12, and US 20 (La Grange Road). I-294 then crosses the Canadian National Railway Joliet Subdivision , the Illinois and Michigan Canal , the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal , the Des Plaines River , the BNSF Railway Chillicothe Subdivision , Santa Fe Drive, and an access road on
481-588: The Cermak Road toll plaza and the Hillside Strangler. It crosses over IL 38 (Roosevelt Road) after the plaza. It enters Hillside and crosses over I-88 and I-290 . It then crosses under Saint Charles Road, enters Berkeley , and crosses the Union Pacific West Line . I-294 enters Northlake and crosses over US 20 (Lake Street), IL 64 (North Avenue), and Grand Avenue. It then takes
518-558: The Chicago Southland Lincoln Oasis, Chicago Road, another railroad track, and State Street through residential areas. I-80/I-294 is between the Thornton Quarry on an elevated area before crossing the quarry on a bridge and passing under another railroad track. The highway then enters East Hazel Crest and has a cloverleaf interchange with IL 1 (Halsted Street) and widens to 10 lanes. Then, I-80/I-294 reenters
555-592: The Edens Spur to charge traffic that followed I-94 into Chicago. Tolls were removed from the northbound exit/southbound entrance to I-294 at Lake Cook Road, while tolls at the Waukegan Toll Plaza were increased, and additional toll plazas were built on exits south of Deerfield at Lake–Cook Road, Willow Road, and Golf Road ( IL 58 ). Toll collection facilities were also added to entrance ramps to northbound I-294 at those points. The Edens Expressway section of I-94
592-550: The Edens Spur. This is where three lanes for the Tri-State Tollway branch off and begin I-294 while two lanes for I-94 head east onto the Edens Spur which only has four lanes total (two in each direction). The highway turns south and widens back to six lanes as it merges with US Route 41 (US 41) and becomes the Edens Expressway, and then widens to 10 lanes (four lanes in each direction plus two reversible lanes ) along
629-599: The Grand Avenue Curve, turning northeast as it approaches O'Hare International Airport . I-294 crosses over the Union Pacific New Line and Wolf Road, briefly enters Bensenville , crosses over the Bensenville Railyard of the Canadian Pacific Railway and Milwaukee District West Line , and US 12/US 45 (Mannheim Road), enters Schiller Park , crosses under the former O'Hare Oasis, and passes by
666-686: The Interstate Highway program was enacted until about 1965 when the connection between the Borman and the Indiana Toll Road was completed, and I-90 was swapped with I-94 west of that junction (and east of where those routes share the same road in Chicago), cutting back I-294 to its current south terminus (eliminating the Indiana part of I-294). I-294 was constructed largely before the growth and maturation of
703-683: The Irving Park toll plaza (for southbound lanes). It passes through the Chicago Panhandle, which connects O'Hare to the rest of the city. It then enters Rosemont , crossing under Balmoral Avenue, I-190 and the Blue Line , and crossing over I-90 , having an interchange with each of the three previously mentioned roadways. I-294 enters Des Plaines , passing by the Touhy Avenue toll plaza (for northbound lanes), and crosses over River Road. It then has
740-602: The Kennedy Expressway. At Ohio Street , the reversible lanes terminate and the highway has 10 lanes to the Jane Byrne Interchange , where the left lane ends and the right lane exits onto the Eisenhower Expressway (I-290). Until 2010, mileposts along the Tri-State Tollway portion of I-94 reflected the distance from the southeastern terminus of the tollway, that led to a counterintuitive increase in
777-620: The Kingery Expressway before entering Indiana. The control cities for I-94 generally are Wisconsin or Milwaukee to the north and west, Chicago or the Chicago Loop for those heading to the central portion, and Indiana to the south and east. I-94 traverses rural and suburban areas in Lake County and the length of the city of Chicago, running just west of the Chicago Loop on the Kennedy Expressway , and serves Six Flags Great America ,
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#1732855503689814-508: The Kingery Expressway. On these ramps to and from I-80, I-94 has two lanes in each direction. On the Kingery Expressway itself, the combined I-80/I-94 route widens to eight lanes (four in each direction) to the Indiana state line. The section including the Southland Interchange with I-80 and I-294 was reconfigured as part of the Kingery Expressway reconstruction project, completed in 2007, including four lanes south of 159th Street, with
851-889: The Midlothian Turnpike, 135th Street, and the Calumet River . I-294 has an interchange with IL 50 and IL 83 (Cicero Avenue) with a northbound exit and southbound entrance via 127th Street in Alsip . It then passes by warehouses and crosses over Ridgeland Avenue, 115th Street, 111th Street, 107th Street, the tracks of the SouthWest Service , Southwest Highway, Stony Creek, all while entering Worth , Chicago Ridge , and Bridgeview . The tollway enters Justice and has another interchange with US 12 / US 20 (95th Street) and IL 43 (Harlem Avenue). I-294 then crosses over 87th Street and Roberts Road. It then goes through
888-415: The central portion of I-294 between Balmoral Avenue and 95th Street was widened to eight lanes. As part of the project, the 79th Street exit was removed while the 75th Street/Willow Springs Road exit was constructed. It also caused southbound 83rd Street Toll Plaza to relocate north. Several former partial interchanges have been converted to full interchanges, with automated toll collection facilities on
925-530: The early 1960s. The expressway was originally designated as IL 1 , Alternate US 30, and certain portions as US 6 and IL 83 , but IL 1 returned to Halsted Street, and US 6 and IL 83 were routed onto Torrence Avenue. In 1962, the connection between the Calumet and Dan Ryan expressways opened and is now signed as part of the Bishop Ford. In 2006–2007, the portion south of 159th Street
962-495: The entire length of the freeway. The closures lasted until August 2008, occurred in advance of patching and resurfacing of the mainline. In addition, the $ 42.8-million (equivalent to $ 59.5 million in 2023 ) project was to rehabilitate six bridges and improve drainage at four underpasses. The Calumet Expressway was originally an extension of Doty Avenue. There were traffic lights at the intersections of Doty Avenue with 111th, 115th, and 130th streets, but interchanges were built in
999-719: The exit ramps of the Jane Byrne Interchange to the Stevenson Expressway (I-55). It then splits into a 14-lane freeway on the Dan Ryan Expressway, with three and four lanes alternating between the local and express lanes in both directions. At the Chicago Skyway , a two-lane ramp carries traffic to I-90, leaving 10 lanes (five in each direction) running south to the I-57/I-94 junction. From I-57 , where I-94
1036-593: The mile numbers as one proceeds "west". In 2010, the milemarkers were renumbered to indicate mileage of I-94 traveled in Illinois, increasing from the Wisconsin border to the Indiana border. South of Downtown Chicago, I-94 serves the southeast suburbs of Chicago, including Dolton , Calumet City , and South Holland , until it joins I-80 on the Kingery Expressway , which finally enters Indiana east of Lansing, Illinois . I-94 has 10 lanes (five in each direction) from
1073-453: The new ramps, such as at 159th Street (US 6; northbound on and southbound off added) and 95th Street (US 12/US 20; southbound on and northbound off added). Between 2006 and 2009, the southern and northern portions of I-294 (IL-394 to 95th Street and I-90 to Lake Cook Road respectively) were fully reconstructed and expanded, bringing the entire highway up to eight lanes. The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority (ISTHA) and
1110-557: The northeastern portion of the US state of Illinois , in Lake and Cook counties. It is signed east–west in Illinois in accordance with its general alignment across the country, with west signage aligned with northbound travel and east signage aligned with southbound travel. I-94 in Illinois is 61.53 miles (99.02 km) long. The William G. Edens Expressway (also known as the Edens Parkway and
1147-715: The old I-494 exist as US 41 (Lake Shore Drive) and the Ohio Street connector. In addition, I-494 was also planned at one point to be a western bypass of Chicago, as the Crosstown Expressway . In 1998, the Illinois Tollway removed the entire Deerfield Toll Plaza north of the I-294/I-94 merge point, then considered one of the worst snags on the tollway system. It was replaced with the Huehl Road Toll Plaza on
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1184-706: The residential areas and center cross over Center Avenue, the Canadian National Railway Chicago Subdivision, the Metra Electric , and the Dixie Highway. After crossing under 171st Street, I-80 splits off and heads toward Des Moines, Iowa , and I-294 narrows to eight lanes in Hazel Crest . After the I-80 split, I-294 heads north and enters Markham . It crosses under 167th Street and goes through
1221-520: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ford_Freeway&oldid=534262078 " Category : Road disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bishop Ford Freeway Interstate 94 ( I-94 ) generally runs north–south through
1258-498: The split between I-80 and I-94 east to the left, and I-80 west, I-294 north, and IL 394 south on the right located north of the 170th Street overpass. The configuration of I-80 and I-94 is discussed in connection with the Kingery Expressway. I-494 was originally planned to serve as a loop in Chicago and follow Lake Shore Drive along Lake Michigan . The first iteration of I-494 was dropped in response to local opposition. Portions of
1295-754: The suburbs that run along the corridor. As a result, the vast majority of the interchanges are partial or were configured to have entrance ramps feeding the toll plazas. Long gaps between exit ramps are common, the 6.5-mile (10.5 km) gap between Cicero Avenue (IL 50/IL 83) and 95th Street (US 12/US 20) being one of the more notable ones. Partial interchanges are located at Roosevelt Road ( IL 38 ; northbound exit, southbound entrance), Irving Park Road (IL 19) (southbound exit, northbound entrance), Touhy Avenue (northbound exit, southbound entrance), Dempster Street (US 14; northbound exit, southbound entrance), and Golf Road (IL 58; southbound exit, northbound entrance). From 1992 to 1993,
1332-610: Was last rehabilitated from 1978 through 1980. From 2007 to 2009, I-94 was widened from six to eight lanes between IL 173 (Rosecrans Road) and IL 22 (Half Day Road). In 1996, the Calumet Expressway was renamed in honor of Bishop Louis Henry Ford , the leader of the Church of God in Christ who had died the previous year. On April 4, 2008, the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) closed one lane in each direction for
1369-685: Was reconstructed as part of the Kingery Expressway–Southland Interchange project. The section between 159th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive was rehabilitated and resurfaced in mid- to late 2009. Interstate 294 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. I-294
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