Stearns Road is a major county road in the
Chicago Metropolitan Area
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in parts of
DuPage and
Kane counties, Illinois, United States. Stearns Road begins at Kane County Highway 34 (
Randall Road
Randall Road is a major north-south county highway in McHenry and Kane County, Illinois. The road is named after Norman Randall, a prominent area landowner in the 1930s. It serves as the western extent of the Fox Valley suburbs in the Chicago m ...
) in
South Elgin and continues east into Greenbrook Boulevard and ends at
U.S. Route 20
U.S. Route 20 or U.S. Highway 20 (US 20) is an east–west United States Numbered Highway that stretches from the Pacific Northwest east to New England. The "0" in its route number indicates that US 20 is a major coast-to-coast route. S ...
in
Hanover Park. Parts of Stearns Road are signed as
Illinois Route 25
Illinois Route 25 (IL 25) is a state route in northeast Illinois. It runs north from U.S. Route 34 in Oswego to Illinois Route 62 (Algonquin Road) in Algonquin. Illinois 25 is in length.
Route description
Illinois Route 25 was opened in Augus ...
, DuPage County Route 29, and Kane County Route 37. This is a distance of about .
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History
Stearns Road began at Dunham Road until the bridge corridor was opened to traffic on December 15, 2010. This award-winning project includes of new road alignment that extends from approximately the Kane–DuPage county line to Randall Road, along with a new Fox River Bridge crossing.
Major intersections
References
County roads in DuPage County, Illinois
Streets in Chicago
Transportation in DuPage County, Illinois
Transportation in Kane County, Illinois
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