Why is 94 called the edens

It used to be called and again, you might still hear this from time to time the Northwest Expressway, but was dedicated to JFK in following his assassination. As for why you can't keep all of these names straight, we can only insist that with practice and hours spent dealing with construction delays, you too will soon know the difference between a Bishop Ford and a Stevenson.

Trust us. Chicago Interstates Map via Marvin Holding your map upside down? Need some advice? Email ask at chicagoist dot com. The Chicagoist will be launching later but in the meantime please enjoy our archives. For example, I goes west from Detroit across the state of Michigan, then around Lake Michigan, and joins with westbound I in Indiana before entering Illinois on the Kingery Expressway. Therefore the northbound orientation of these expressways is I westbound from the perspective of the interstate system in which I crosses the country from east to west.

As with Chicago, travelers new to the Milwaukee area may not be familiar with the correspondence between expressway names and interstate highway numbers.

The following is a cross-reference between interstate numbers and expressway names in the Milwaukee area:. Please send comments, suggestions, or requests for help to Travel Midwest webmaster. By the time Congress created the Interstate Highway System in , nearly all Chicago-area expressways were laid out, but federal funding pushed construction into high gear. The Dan Ryan Expressway opened to 95th Street in — Much of cross-country Interstate 80, skirting the south edge of the metropolitan area, opened at the same time.

The design of Chicago expressways was straightforward, graced by neither the architectural detailing found along Lake Shore Drive nor the soaring ramps built on California freeways. Although early plans called for landscaped parkways, Interstate-era landscaping was minimal. Chicago did pioneer the use of median rapid transit lines, which were built along the Eisenhower, Dan Ryan, and Kennedy expressways.

The Kennedy also includes reversible lanes to carry rush-hour loads that are heavier in one direction than the other, an idea first tried on North Lake Shore Drive, but removed in the late s. The Dan Ryan includes express lanes that bypass local exits, making one of the world's widest roads, with 14 lanes in one section.

February 14, Almost every section of interstate in the metro area has a name. Plummer, a retired planner, was exposed to our developing expressway system from an early age. Radio host's Porsche carjacked in South Loop: 'I let my guard down'. COVID tests show cases rising statewide, citywide.

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