The Robert Kingery Expressway, formerly called the Tri-State Highway, is a three-mile-long (5 km), eight-lane

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in northeastern

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. It carries

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(I-80) and I-94 from the Illinois–Indiana border at the

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west to

Illinois Route 394 Illinois Route 394 (IL 394), also known as the Calumet Expressway, is a 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 ...

(IL 394),

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(the Tri-State Tollway), and the southern end of the

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(where I-94 turns north to downtown

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). It also carries

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(US 6) west from the

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state line to the US 6 exit with IL 83 (Torrence Avenue).

Route description

The Kingery Expressway begins at an interchange with the

Tri-State Tollway The Tri-State Tollway is a toll highway in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Illinois. It follows: *Interstate 80 from I-94/I-294/IL 394 in South Holland to I-294 in Hazel Crest; * Interstate 294 from I-80/I-94/IL 394 in South Hol ...

to the west, the

to the north, and IL 394 to the south. From here, the expressway heads east through

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. The highway then reaches its only exit, a junction with IL 83 and US 6; east of here, US 6 runs concurrently with the expressway. Past the exit, the highway continues east; it briefly curves east-southeast before crossing into Indiana and becoming the

History

The Tri-State Expressway opened to traffic on November 1, 1950. The highway was renamed the Kingery Expressway in 1953, two years after the death of Robert Kingery. He was a former director of the Illinois Public Works, a regional director for the Chicago Regional Planning Association, as well as a proponent of the current northeastern Illinois tollway configuration until his death in 1951. The expressway was rebuilt in 2005-2007 to add traffic lanes and better accommodate the large amount of truck traffic that travels between Chicago and all points east and southeast. Construction was completed in July 2007. Among the improvements is the separation of traffic heading to the Bishop Ford Freeway and Torrence Avenue, with the westbound split for the Bishop Ford east of Torrence near Burnham Avenue, and an eastbound collector-distributor lane allowing a right hand exit from either I-80 or I-94 eastbound to Torrence without having to cross expressway through lanes. The Southland Interchange with the Bishop Ford Freeway, IL 394, and the Tri-State Tollway was also rebuilt and reconfigured.

Exit list

References

External links

Illinois Department of Transportation Gary–Chicago–Milwaukee Corridor
{{- Expressways in the Chicago area U.S. Route 6 Interstate 80 Interstate 94