Illinois Route 47
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| Maintained by IDOT | ||||
| Length: | 169.76 mi (273.20 km) | |||
| Existed: | 1924 – present | |||
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| South end: |
 IL 10 in Seymour
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 I-72 in Seymour I-74 in Mahomet I-55 in Dwight I-80 in Morris    I-88 / IL 110 (CKC) in Sugar Grove I-90 in Huntley
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| North end: |
 WIS 120 in Hebron
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| Counties: | Champaign, Ford, Livingston, Grundy, Kendall, Kane, McHenry | |||
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Illinois Route 47 is a largely rural north–south state highway that runs from the Wisconsin state border at Highway 120 near Hebron, to Illinois Route 10, just south of Interstate 72 near Seymour. This is a distance of 169.76 miles (273.20 km). Even though Route 47 is primarily rural, in several suburbs of Chicago, such as , traffic can be congested. Even in heavily rural areas, traffic is heavy.
It crosses most Interstate highways in northern and central Illinois, but the largest towns that Illinois 47 serves are Huntley (at the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway), Yorkville (at U.S. Route 34), (at U.S. Route 14), Lily Lake at (Illinois Route 64), Elburn (at Illinois Route 38), Sugar Grove (at U.S. Route 30), Morris (at Interstate 80), Dwight (at Interstate 55), Forrest (at U.S. Route 24), Gibson City (at Illinois Route 54), and Mahomet (at Interstate 74).
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