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	Jane Addams Memorial Tollway
	Formerly the Northwest Tollway
Length:	79 miles (127 km)
Formed:	1958
Direction:	East-west
From:	Illinois Route 75 in South Beloit
To:	Interstates 90/190 in Chicago
Major cities:	Rockford, Elgin, Arlington Heights, Schaumburg
System:	Interstate Highway System; Illinois Tollway system

The Jane Addams Memorial Tollway in Illinois is a 79-mile (127 km) segment of Interstate 90 from Interstate 190 in far northwest Chicago to Illinois Route 75, one mile (1.6 km) south of the Wisconsin state line. For 16 miles (26 km), Interstate 90 is concurrent with Interstate 39 and U.S. Route 51. The highway is named after Jane Addams, Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the Settlement House movement in the United States.

The tollway was built in the late 1950s and early 1960s from the O'Hare area (at the Tri-State Tollway) to the WI line north of Rockford. The route is signed as I-90 on its entire length. From the Rockford Curve to the last exit in IL (IL-75), US-51 and I-39 also run with the Tollway.

This tollway is one of the few roads in the United States where the exit numbers increase traveling west. Mileage markers count up from Chicago-O'Hare International Airport going west.

East of Interstate 190, Interstate 90 merges into the Kennedy Expressway.

Prior to September 7, 2007, the tollway was known as the Northwest Tollway.^[1]^[2]

[edit] Route description

The Jane Addams Tollway consists of four lanes west of Elgin (2 each direction), and six east of Elgin (3 each direction).

[edit] Toll barriers

There are four mainline toll barriers in each direction with two split plazas and two full plazas. The barriers are located around the O'Hare International Airport area (River Road eastbound and Devon Avenue westbound), in Elgin, near Marengo (Eastbound), in Belvidere (Westbound), and in South Beloit. Interstate 39 travelers exiting/entering at Rockford paid at the Cherry Valley toll plaza, but that toll plaza has been decommissioned southbound in 2003 and northbound in 2004 in due to traffic congestion.^[3] In Feb. 2006, the Marengo Westbound and the Belvidere Eastbound tolls were removed. Two two toll plazas near O'Hare and the one in Elgin each charge cash tolls of 80 cents (as of January 1, 2005) and I-Pass tolls of 40 cents for a 2-axle passenger vehicle. The South Beloit toll plaza near the Illinois and Wisconsin state line is $1.00 (50 cents for I-Pass users). Eastbound traffic does not pay a toll at Belvidere because of the removal of the Eastbound Belvidere plaza, but pays $1.60 at Marengo (I-Pass users pay $0.80). On the other hand, Westbound traffic pays no toll at Marengo but pays $1.60 at Belvidere (I-PASS users pay $0.80). This change was done to accommodate open road tolling construction. Originally, a ticket system was used to compute tolls on the segment between Beloit and Elgin with each driver receiving a Hollerith card upon entering and paying upon exiting, but it was replaced with a cash barrier system in the late 1970s. It was the only portion of the Illinois Tollways to use a ticket system.

The Jane Addams Tollway is maintained by the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority.

The Jane Addams Tollway in Schaumburg.

[edit] Oases

There are two oases on the Jane Addams Tollway -- one at Belvidere, and one in Des Plaines near O'Hare. Both are over-highway oases. There is also a welcome center south of Beloit, WI.

[edit] Golden Corridor

Main article: Golden Corridor

From O'Hare to Huntley, the region around the Jane Addams Tollway is sometimes referred to as the "Golden Corridor", due to the proximity of commercial and business activity located along the corridor in Northwest Suburban Chicago. Several Fortune 500 companies, large malls, hotels, entertainment and exhibition facilities, restaurants, and retailers are located along the corridor, providing a "gold" mine of profit to communities along the Golden Corridor.

[edit] Exit list

County	Location	Plaza #^[4]	Mile ^[4]	Destinations	Notes
Winnebago	South Beloit			US 51 north / IL 75 west – South Beloit	West end of US 51 overlap; signed as exit 1
	Rockton		76	Rockton Road	Signed as exit 3
	Rockton	1	75.5	South Beloit Toll Plaza
	Rockford	4	69.8	IL 173
		2	66	East Riverside Boulevard – Loves Park
			63.5	US 20 Bus. (State Street)
			61.5	I-39 south / US 51 south to US 20 – Rockford	East end of I-39/US 51 overlap
	Belvidere	5	55.5	Belvidere Toll Plaza (westbound)
			54.5	Belvidere Oasis
			54	Genoa Road – Belvidere
McHenry	Riley	7	41	Marengo-Hampshire Toll Plaza (eastbound)
Kane	Hampshire		36	US 20 – Marengo, Hampshire
	Huntley		32.5	IL 47 – Woodstock	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
	Elgin	8	26.5	Randall Road
		9	25	Elgin Toll Plaza
		11	24	IL 31
Cook		13	23	IL 25
	Hoffman Estates	14A	21	Beverly Road	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
		14	19	IL 59
		10	16.5	Barrington Road	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
	Schaumburg	12	13	Roselle Road	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
	Schaumburg	15	10.5	I-290 east (Eisenhower Expressway) / IL 53 – Chicago, West Suburbs, Northwest Suburbs
	Arlington Heights	18	8	Arlington Heights Road
	Des Plaines		5	Elmhurst Road	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
			4.5	Des Plaines Oasis
			2.5	IL 72 / Lee Street	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
	Rosemont	17	2	Devon Avenue Toll Plaza (westbound)
			1.5	IL 72 / Devon Avenue (6400 North)	Westbound entrance only
			1.5	I-294 south (Tri-State Tollway) / I-190 west (Kennedy Expressway) – Indiana, O'Hare Airport	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
			1	I-294 north (Tri-State Tollway) – Milwaukee
		19	0.5	River Road Toll Plaza (eastbound)
	Chicago		0	I-90 east (Kennedy Expressway) – Chicago	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance