Kingery Expressway | |
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| Tri-State Highway | |
 Kingery Expressway highlighted in red | |
| Route information | |
| Maintained byIDOT | |
| Length | 3 mi (4.8 km) |
| Existed | 1953–present |
| Component highways |   I-80 /I-94 entire length US 6 inLansing |
| Major junctions | |
| West end |   I-80 /I-94 /I-294 /IL 394 inSouth Holland |
| Major intersections |  US 6 /IL 83 inLansing |
| East end | I-80 /I-94 /US 6 inLansing |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Illinois |
| Highway system | |
TheRobert Kingery Expressway, formerly called the Tri-State Highway, is a three-mile-long (5 km), eight-lanefreeway in the northeastern part of the U.S. state ofIllinois. It carriesInterstate 80 (I-80) andI-94 from the Illinois–Indiana border at theBorman Expressway west toIllinois Route 394 (IL 394),I-294 (the Tri-State Tollway), and the southern end of theBishop Ford Freeway (where I-94 turns north to downtownChicago). It also carriesU.S. Route 6 (US 6) west from theIndiana state line to the US 6 exit withIL 83 (Torrence Avenue).
The Kingery Expressway begins at an interchange with theTri-State Tollway to the west, theBishop Ford Freeway to the north, andIL 394 to the south. From here, the expressway heads east throughLansing. The highway then reaches its only exit, a junction withIL 83 andUS 6; east of here, US 6runs concurrently with the expressway. Past the exit, the highway continues east; it briefly curves east-southeast before crossing into Indiana and becoming theBorman Expressway.[1]
The Tri-State Expressway opened to traffic on November 1, 1950.[2] 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.[3] 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.[4] TheSouthland Interchange with the Bishop Ford Freeway, IL 394, and the Tri-State Tollway was also rebuilt and reconfigured.
The entire route is inCook County.
| Location | mi[5] | km | Exit | Destinations | Notes | |
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| South Holland | 160.40 | 258.14 | – |    I-80 Toll west /I-294 Toll north (Tollway) | Southern terminus of I-294 | |
| Lansing | 161.62 | 260.10 | 161 |  US 6 west /IL 83 (Torrence Avenue) | Western end of US 6 concurrency | |
| 162.51 | 261.53 | 160 |  I-94 west /IL 394 south –Chicago,Danville | Eastern terminus of I-94 (Bishop Ford Freeway); northern terminus of IL 394 | ||
| 163.41 | 262.98 | – |   I-80 east /I-94 east /US 6 east | Continuation intoIndiana as theBorman Expressway | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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