Circle Interchange
| Circle Interchange | |
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| Jane Byrne Interchange | |
Aerial photo of the Jane Byrne Interchange, looking southwest toward the UIC campus
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| Location | |
| Chicago, Illinois | |
| Coordinates: | 41°52′32″N 87°38′44″W / 41.875514°N 87.645458°WCoordinates: 41°52′32″N 87°38′44″W / 41.875514°N 87.645458°W |
| Roads at junction: |
  IL 110 (CKC)
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| Construction | |
| Opened: | 1960s |
| Maintained by: | IDOT |
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The Circle Interchange (officially the Jane Byrne Interchange) is an expressway interchange near downtown Chicago, Illinois. It is the junction between the Dan Ryan, Kennedy and Eisenhower expressways (Interstate 90/Interstate 94 [I-90/I-94] and I-290), and Congress Parkway. In a dedication ceremony held on August 29, 2014, this interchange was renamed in honor of former Chicago Mayor Jane M. Byrne (1979–1983).
This interchange is notorious for its traffic jams. In 2004, it was rated as the country's third-worst traffic bottleneck, with the drivers of the approximately 300,000 vehicles a day using it losing a combined 25 million hours each year. In a 2010 study of freight congestion (truck speed and travel time), the Department of Transportation ranked this section of the I-290 as having the worst congestion in the United States; the average truck speed just 29.41 mph (47.33 km/h).
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