Transportation Chicago metropolitan area

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1 transportation

1.1 major airports
1.2 commercial ports
1.3 rail , transit systems
1.4 major highways

1.4.1 interstates
1.4.2 other main highways
1.4.3 major corridors







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major airports

chicago o hare international airport (ord)
chicago midway international airport (mdw)
general mitchell international airport (mke) (located in adjacent milwaukee metropolitan area)
gary/chicago international airport (gyy)
chicago rockford international airport (rfd) (located in adjacent rockford metropolitan area)

commercial ports

port of chicago
port of indiana-burns harbor

rail , transit systems

chicago transit authority trains, locally referred l , (after elevated train ) serving chicago , near suburbs
pace suburban bus operates suburban bus , regional vanpool, paratransit , ridematching services in chicagoland region.
northeast illinois regional commuter railroad corporation, known metra:

4 lines serving southern cook county , county
3 lines serving western cook county, dupage county, , kane county
1 line serving northwestern cook county , mchenry county
3 lines serving northern cook county , lake county, 1 line extending kenosha, wisconsin


south shore line shares metra electric lines , connects chicago gary, michigan city, ending @ south bend, indiana.
amtrak operates union station major amtrak passenger rail hub connections metra , l.

major highways
interstates

interstate 41 (i-41) runs concurrent interstate 94 @ northern terminus of tri-state tollway.
interstate 55 (i-55) adlai stevenson expy.
i-355 veterans memorial tollway (formerly north-south tollway).
i-57 unofficially west leg of dan ryan expy.
i-65 has no name, whether official or unofficial.
i-80 officially called borman expy (cosigned i-94), kingery expy (cosigned i-80 3 miles), tri-state tollway (cosigned i-294 4 miles) , unofficially called moline expy west of i-294.
i-88 ronald reagan memorial tollway (formerly east-west tollway)
i-90 locally known jane addams tollway (formerly northwest tollway), john f kennedy expy (cosigned i-94), dan ryan expy (cosigned i-94), , chicago skyway toll bridge. chicago skyway disputed since around 2000 if i-90. signed i-90 in both directions.
i-190 john f kennedy expy spur heading chicago-o hare int l airport.
i-290 dwight d eisenhower expy.
i-94 tri-state tollway in lake county, edens spur, edens expy, john f kennedy expy (cosigned i-90), dan ryan expy (cosigned i-90), bishop ford frwy (formerly calumet expy), kingery expy (cosigned i-80) , borman expy (cosigned i-80).
i-294 tri-state tollway.

other main highways

us routes in illinois part of area include: 6, 12, 14, 20, 30, 34, 41, 45, , 52.
illinois route 53, arterial north–south state highway running through grundy, will, dupage, cook , lake counties
historic route 66 s eastern terminus in chicago.

major corridors

in addition chicago loop, metro area home few important subregional corridors of commercial activities. among them are:



illinois technology , research corridor, along ronald reagan memorial tollway (interstate 88)
golden corridor, along jane addams memorial tollway (interstate 90)






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