Kingery Expressway
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| Kingery Expressway |
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| Length: | 3 miles (5 km) |
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| Formed: | 1953 |
| Direction: | East-west |
| From: |    Interstates 80/94/294, Illinois Route 394 in South Holland |
| To: | Indiana state line east of Lansing |
| Major cities: | None |
| System: | Interstate highway system |
The Robert Kingery Expressway, formerly called the Tri-State Highway, is a three-mile-long (5 km), eight-lane expressway in northeastern Illinois. It carries Interstates 80 and 94 from the Illinois/Indiana border at the Borman Expressway west to Illinois Route 394, Interstate 294 (the Tri-State Tollway), and the southern end of the Bishop Ford Freeway (where Interstate 94 turns north to downtown Chicago). It also carries U.S. Highway 6 west from the Indiana state line to the U.S. 6 exit with Illinois Route 83 (Torrence Avenue).
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. However, only rarely do locals call it "The Kingery" like other named expressways (Ryan, Eisenhower, Stevenson, etc.), it is just called "80/94"
It should not be confused with the Kingery Highway, which is Illinois 83 in DuPage County. The Kingery Highway is a north-south six-lane divided highway that runs up and down the length of the eastern part of the county.
The Kingery Expressway was built in 1950, and 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.[1] 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.[2] The Southland Interchange with the Bishop Ford Freeway, Illinois 394, and the Tri-State Tollway was also rebuilt and reconfigured.
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See Interstate 80 in Illinois.
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- ^ Illinois Department of Transportation (2007-06-28). Independence from roadwork along new Kingery Expressway and modernized Southland Corridor marks July 4th holiday week. Retrieved on 2007-07-03.
- ^ Illinois Department of Transportation (2006-12-08). Special Advisory for Drivers who use westbound I-80/94. Retrieved on 2007-07-03.
