Crosstown Expressway (Chicago)
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| Crosstown Expressway | |
| Route information | |
| Maintained by IDOT | |
| Existed | 1960s – 1970s |
| Major junctions | |
| South end | Near the intersection of 87th Street and the Dan Ryan Expressway |
| North end | Near the Edens/Kennedy junction |
| Location | |
| Counties | Cook |
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The Crosstown Expressway (Interstate 494), was a cancelled highway route in Chicago, Illinois. It was originally proposed through the 1960s and 1970s.
The highway was to begin from a connection with the Kennedy Expressway and Edens Expressway (Interstates 90 & 94) near Montrose Avenue on the city's Northwest Side. It was to follow an alignment parallel, and adjacent to the Belt Railway of Chicago, approximately one-half mile east of Cicero Avenue and extend southerly over railroad right-of-way through the West Side of Chicago, and across the Sanitary and Ship Canal to a connection with the Stevenson Expressway (Interstate 55).
South of this confluence, the route would continue south in a reverse direction, split-arrangement with the northbound highway lanes depressed along Cicero Avenue and the southbound lanes depressed along the Belt Railway of Chicago tracks. Continuing south past the proposed traffic interchange at Chicago Midway International Airport, the expressway alignment was to turn southeasterly at 67th Street and continue over Belt Railway right-of-way to Lawndale Avenue then turn easterly towards the Dan Ryan Expressway along Norfolk Southern Railway right-of-way (now Metra-South West Service) and 75th Street to an interchange with the Dan Ryan Expressway (Interstate 94) north of 91st Street.
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