Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway
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| Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway |
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| Former East-West Tollway | |
| Length: | 96 miles (154 km) |
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| Formed: | 1958 |
| Direction: | East-west |
| From: |  U.S. Route 30 in Sterling, Illinois |
| To: |   Interstates 290/294 in Hillside, Illinois |
| Major cities: | DeKalb, Illinois, Aurora, Illinois, Naperville, Illinois, Downers Grove, Illinois |
| System: | Interstate Highway system Illinois Tollway system |
The Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway, originally known as the East-West Tollway, is a toll road in northern Illinois.
Opened November 21, 1958, it was initially designated as U.S. Route 30 Toll, and later Illinois Route 190. The original routing extended from the Interstate 294 interchange near Hillside to Illinois Route 47 near Sugar Grove. Illinois Route 56 was multiplexed on the East-West Tollway between North Aurora and Sugar Grove in 1965. That length of Route 56 makes it the only state road to be multiplexed with one of the tollways of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority.
When the East-West Tollway was extended to Interstate 80 near the Illinois/Iowa border in the 1970s, the Illinois 190 numbering was removed from the stretch between Aurora and Sugar Grove, making that section strictly Illinois 56. Once complete, the new routing of the tollway between Interstate 80 and Interstate 294 became designated as Illinois Route 5. In the late 1980s, it was renumbered as Interstate 88.
The road is officially a tollway east of the Sterling/Rock Falls area, east of the intersection with U.S. Route 30, to its terminus near Hillside. West of U.S. 30 to Interstate 80, Interstate 88 is a freeway. The tollway portion is 96 miles (154 km) long.
After the death of Illinois native and former President Ronald Reagan in 2004, the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority voted to rename the toll roadway in his memory, as it passes near his boyhood home of Dixon, Illinois.
One of the seven Illinois Tollway oases serves the Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway. It is located near DeKalb, Illinois.
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- Illinois Highways Page - Illinois Tollways
- Dennis McClendon, Re: (CHICAGOTRANSIT) Expressway openings
| Toll highways in Illinois |
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| Illinois State Toll Highway Authority |
| Highways |
Northwest Tollway   (I-39/I-90) | Tri-State Tollway   (I-80/I-94/I-294)Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway  (I-88) | North-South Tollway  (I-355) |
| Miscellaneous |
| I-Pass | Illinois Tollway oasis |
