Illinois Route 56
Illinois Route 56 | ||||
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| Butterfield Road (mostly) Bill Hewitt Memorial Highway | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by IDOT | ||||
| Length | 32.52 mi[1] (52.34 km) | |||
| Existed | 1924[2]–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end |   US 30 / IL 47 in Sugar Grove | |||
    I-88 Toll / IL 110 (CKC) in Aurora I-88 Toll / IL 31 / IL 110 (CKC) in Aurora I-355 Toll in Downers Grove | ||||
| East end |    US 12 / US 20 / US 45 in Bellwood | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Illinois | |||
| Counties | Kane, DuPage, Cook | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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Illinois Route 56 (IL 56) is an east–west state road in northern and northeastern Illinois. It runs from the interchange of Illinois Route 47 at U.S. Route 30 (US 30) in Sugar Grove east to US 12/US 20/US 45 (Mannheim Road) by Bellwood. This is a distance of 32.52 miles (52.34 km).[1]
Route description
Illinois 56 parallels Interstate 88 (Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway) for its entire length and merges with it at Illinois Route 31, making it the only state road to be marked as a toll road—only Illinois Route 190 and Illinois Route 5 have ever had this distinction. Travelling eastbound, it begins at US 30 in Sugar Grove just west of Orchard Road and then runs with the I-88 tollway until intersecting Illinois Route 31. The route travels north with IL 31 briefly, then crosses over the Fox River. From there, the route heads in a northeasterly direction, paralleling I-88 to the north. The route ends at US 12/US 20/US 45.
Route 56 is called Butterfield Road for its entire length east of Illinois Route 25 until it meets its end as Washington Boulevard in Bellwood. It serves the Chicago suburbs of Aurora, Downers Grove, Elmhurst, Oak Brook, Wheaton, and other communities, as well as the College of DuPage, Oakbrook Center shopping mall, and farther out, the Fermilab in Batavia. Butterfield Road is a major arterial road within the Illinois Technology and Research Corridor.
History
SBI Route 56 was the current Illinois 56 from Oak Brook to Bellwood on Butterfield Road.[2] On April 2, 1965, the Illinois State Division of Highways announced that the IL 56 designation over IL 55, which was duplicated by the designation of Interstate 55.[3] In 1972, the eastern end was truncated to its current location. The western end of Illinois 56 is part of the old alignment of the old east–west Tollway.[2]
Major intersections
 | This section is missing mileposts for junctions. |
| County | Location | mi | km | Destinations | Notes |
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| Kane | Sugar Grove |  US 30 west – Hinckley US 30 east / IL 47 – Elburn, Sugar Grove | Western terminus | ||
| Galena Boulevard | |||||
| I-88 / IL 110 (CKC) west – DeKalb, Iowa | West end of I-88 overlap; No access from IL 56 eastbound to I-88 westbound; Exit 113 westbound | ||||
 CR 83 (Orchard Road) – Aurora, Batavia, North Aurora | Toll on eastbound exit westbound entrance; Exit 114 in both directions; was Exit 115 | ||||
| North Aurora |   I-88 Toll east / IL 31 south / IL 110 (CKC) east – Aurora, Chicago | East end of I-88 & IL 110 overlap; West end of IL 31 overlap; Exit 117 in both directions | |||
  IL 31 north (Lincolnway Street) / Lincoln Highway | East end of IL 31 & Lincoln Highway overlap | ||||
 IL 25 (River Street) | |||||
| Aurora |  CR 77 (Kirk Road, Farnsworth Avenue) | ||||
| DuPage |   CR 14 south (Eola Road) | Northern terminus of CR 14 | |||
| Warrenville |  IL 59 | ||||
 CR 13 (Winfield Road) | |||||
| Wheaton |  CR 51 south (Herrick Road) | Northern terminus of CR 51 | |||
 CR 23 (Naperville Road) | |||||
| Glen Ellyn |  IL 53 (Bryant Avenue) | ||||
| Downers Grove | I-355 Toll (Veteran's Memorial Tollway) – Joliet, Northwest Suburbs | ||||
 CR 2 south (Finley Road) | Northern terminus of CR 2 | ||||
 CR 9 (Highland Avenue) | |||||
| Oak Brook |  CR 25 (Meyers Road) | ||||
| Oak Brook–Oakbrook Terrace town line |  CR 15 (Midwest Road/Summit Avenue) | ||||
 IL 83 (Kingery Highway) | Westbound access is via IL 38, No access to IL 83 from eastbound IL 56 | ||||
| Oakbrook Terrace |     IL 38 (Roosevelt Road) to I-294 Toll north (Tri-State Tollway) | No access to IL 38 eastbound from eastbound IL 56, no access to westbound IL 38 from westbound IL 56 | |||
| Elmhurst | York Street | ||||
| Cook | Hillside | Wolf Road | |||
| Bellwood | US 12 (Mannheim Road) / US 20 / US 45 | Eastern terminus | |||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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References
- ^ a b Illinois Technology Transfer Center (2006). "T2 GIS Data". Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ^ a b c Carlson, Rick. Illinois State Highways Page: Routes 41 through 60. Last updated April 15, 2005. Retrieved March 31, 2006.
- ^ "Change State Route 55 Designation to Route 56". The Chicago Tribune. April 3, 1965. p. S2.