TheGolden Corridor is the area around theJane Addams Memorial Tollway (Interstate 90), formerly known as the Northwest Tollway, in theChicago metropolitan area.[1] Its name refers to the "gold" mine of economic profit for communities in the area. SeveralFortune 500 company headquarters,office parks,industrial parks, exhibition and entertainment centers, medical facilities, hotels, shopping centers, and restaurants are in the Golden Corridor. With the exception of the O'Hare area of Chicago, all the communities in this region are part of a larger region known as the "Northwest Suburbs".
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Ranging from regional indoor malls to chic lifestyle centers, "the Golden Corridor" is a bustling center of retail activity. Major shopping centers include:
Woodfield Mall, among the Top 10 largest malls in North America, and the largest in Illinois. Located atGolf Road andInterstate 290, just south of Interstate 90
From major arenas to convention centers to theaters to gambling centers, the Golden Corridor is a thriving entertainment center. Major facilities include:
Schaumburg Convention Center and Renaissance Hotel, a 175,000-square-foot (16,300 m2) convention center and 500-room hotel located at Meacham Road and I-90 inSchaumburg.
Rivers Casino, a casino located at River Road and Devon Avenue inDes Plaines, on the east side of Interstate 294, just north of Interstate 90. It is Illinois' most-profitable casino.
Wintrust Field, a 7,000+ seat minor league ballpark located on Springinsguth Road inSchaumburg, a few miles south of Interstate 90. It is home of theSchaumburg Boomers professional minor league baseball team.
AMITA Resurrection Medical Center: a comprehensive stroke center and one of Chicago’s Emergency Medicine residency programs, just a mile north of Interstate 90 in Chicago (O’Hare area)
Chicago-O'Hare International Airport, the busiest airport in the world (by total number of takeoffs and landings), is located within the Golden Corridor
CTA'sBlue Line is a rapid transit train line which terminates atO'Hare and has stops atRosemont andCumberland, with additional stops further east, providing access to downtown Chicago and the entire CTA system.
Pace and CTA both offer scheduled fixed-route bus service to the area, with numerous routes. Pace operates anon-highway BRT service along Interstate 90 from Rosemont to Elgin. Pace's headquarters are located within the scope of the corridor, in Arlington Heights.
Interstate 90 ("Jane Addams Memorial Tollway") is the primary interstate highway in the area, providing high-speed limited-access transportation for the corridor. In addition to providing direct highway access to many of the local roads, communities, and amenities of the Golden Corridor, it also provides access toRockford to the west and downtown Chicago to the east, and extends coast-to-coast, fromSeattle toBoston.
Interstate 190 provides direct access from Interstates 90 and 294 to Chicago-O'Hare International Airport.
Interstate 290/Illinois Route 53 is a limited access highway that intersects Interstate 90 in Schaumburg near Woodfield Mall. It provides access to the northwest suburbs to the north and to the western suburbs to the south and east, as well as access to downtown Chicago.
Interstate 294 ("Tri-State Tollway") is a limited access north-south highway that intersects Interstate 90 near Rosemont. It provides access to the northern suburbs andWisconsin to the north, and provides access to the western and southern suburbs as well asNorthwest Indiana to the southeast.
Illinois Route 390 ("Elgin-O'Hare Tollway") is a limited access highway that runs fromU.S. Route 20 in Hanover Park to Thorndale Road in Itasca, providing local access for communities in that area. An eastward extension of the expressway to the west side of Chicago-O'Hare International Airport at York Road is currently under construction, as is a northward leg to Interstate 90 and a southward leg to Interstate 294.
