Ogden Avenue

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Ogden Avenue
William B. Ogden Memorial Highway
Ogden Avenue.jpg
Ogden Avenue at Pulaski and Cermak, looking toward the Loop
Part ofUS 34.svgUS 66 (IL historic).svg US 34  / Historic US 66
Length37.5 mi (60.4 km)
Location Chicago
West endUS 30.svg US 30 in Montgomery
North endChestnut St., just past Milwaukee Ave. and Chicago Ave. in Chicago

Ogden Avenue is a street extending from the Near West Side of Chicago to Montgomery, Illinois. It was named for William B. Ogden, the first mayor of Chicago.

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The street follows the route of the Southwestern Plank Road, a plank road opened in 1848 across swampy terrain between Chicago and Riverside, Illinois, and, by 1851, extended to Naperville. [1]

The 1909 Plan of Chicago recommended an entire network of new diagonal streets, but the only one ever built was the extension in the 1920s of Ogden from Union Park through the Old Town neighborhood to end at Clark Street opposite Lincoln Park. This extension, largely built in the 1920s, was completed in 1934 with bridges and a connecting viaduct across Goose Island and the North Branch of the Chicago River. [2] In the late 1960s, as part of an urban renewal project for Old Town, the street was vacated in this area and sold off for development. In recent decades, additional portions of Ogden have been abandoned and vacated. The avenue now ends a short distance north of Chicago Avenue.

The street intersects Interstate 90/Interstate 94/Kennedy Expressway in Chicago, Interstate 294/Tri-State Tollway in Western Springs, Interstate 355 in Lisle.

In the 1920s the broad avenue became an important arterial carrying auto traffic through the city's West Side. Portions of the avenue carried U.S. Route 66 from the city through adjacent suburbs. It carried US 32 until 1934. Ogden Avenue used to carry U.S. Route 34 to its end as well. Because of this, the intersection of U.S. Route 34/Ogden Avenue and U.S. Route 12/U.S. Route 20/U.S. Route 45/LaGrange Road is one of the few places where four U.S. Routes intersect. Further outside Chicago, a portion of the roadway from Harlem Avenue through the western suburbs carries U.S. Route 34. U.S Route 34 carries the name of Ogden Av. from Chicago westbound to Aurora, Illinois. Ogden Av. ends when U.S. Route 34 leaves Aurora at the intersection of U.S. Route 34 and U.S. Route 30 on the border of Aurora; Montgomery, Illinois; and Oswego, Illinois.

Major intersections

CountyLocationmi [3] kmDestinationsNotes
Kendall Oswego West plate.svg
US 34.svg
US 34 west
Continuation beyond Ogden Falls Boulevard
OswegoMontgomery line0.00.0West plate.svg
US 30.svg
US 30 west (Ogden Falls Boulevard)
Western terminus; western end of US 30 concurrency
Montgomery 0.40.64East plate.svg
US 30.svg
LincolnHighwayMarker.svg US 30 east / Lincoln Highway (Hill Avenue)
Eastern end of US 30 concurrency
Kane
No major junctions
DuPage Aurora 3.96.3East plate county.svg
CR 33 jct.svg
CR 33 east (75th Street)
AuroraNaperville line5.08.0Illinois 59.svg IL 59
Naperville 7.411.9North plate county.svg
CR 1 jct.svg
CR 1 north (Raymond Drive)
Ogden continues at right fork, northern section continues as Raymond Drive
9.014.5North plate county.svg
CR 32 jct.svg
CR 32 north (Mill Street)
11.117.9North plate county.svg
CR 23 jct.svg
CR 23 north (Naper Boulevard)
Lisle 12.620.3CR 40 jct.svg CR 40 (Yackley Avenue)
13.321.4Illinois 53.svg IL 53 (Lincoln Avenue)Interchange
Downers GroveLisle line14.523.3Toll plate yellow.svg
I-88.svg
Toll plate yellow.svg
I-355.svg
Chicago-Kansas City Expressway plate.svg
Illinois 110.svg
I-88 Toll (Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway) / I-355 Toll (Veterans Memorial Tollway) / IL 110 (CKC)
Downers Grove 15.524.9North plate county.svg
CR 52 jct.svg
CR 52 north (Cross Street)
15.925.6CR 2 jct.svg CR 2 (Finley Avenue (north) Belmont Avenue (south))
16.927.2North plate county.svg
CR 9 jct.svg
CR 9 north (Main Street)
17.728.5North plate county.svg
CR 25 jct.svg
CR 25 north (Fairview Avenue)
Westmont 18.730.1North plate county.svg
CR 15 jct.svg
CR 15 north (Cass Avenue)
WestmontClarendon Hills
Hinsdale tripoint
20.232.5Illinois 83.svg IL 83 (Kingery Highway)Interchange
Cook HinsdaleWestern Springs line22.035.4Toll plate yellow.svg
I-294.svg
I-294 Toll (Tri-State Tollway) Wisconsin, Indiana
Western SpringsWestchester line22.836.7CR W22 jct.svg CR W22 (Wolf Road)
La Grange 24.339.1US 12.svgUS 20.svgUS 45.svg US 12  / US 20  / US 45 (LaGrange Road)
La GrangeBrookfield line24.839.9 CR W27 south (East Avenue)
Lyons 26.242.2Illinois 171.svg IL 171 (1st Avenue)
LyonsRiverside
Berwyn tripoint
27.944.9Illinois 43.svgEnd plate.svg
US 34.svg
IL 43 (Harlem Avenue) / US 34 ends
Eastern end of US 34 concurrency; eastern terminus of US 34
Cicero 31.250.2Illinois 50.svg IL 50 (Cicero Avenue) Quadrant interchange
Chicago 32.452.1 CR W43 south (Pulaski Road)
34.655.7 CR W96 (Western Avenue)
37.259.9West plate blue.svg
I-90.svg
West plate blue.svg
I-94.svg
I-90 west / I-94 west (Kennedy Expressway)
Westbound I-90/I-94 entrance; eastbound I-90/I-94 exit
37.560.4West Chestnut StreetEastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

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References

  1. Chicago's Highways Old and New From Indian Trail to Motor Road, Milo M. Quaife, D. F. Keller & Company, Chicago, 1923
  2. "Begin Final Link of Ogden Avenue Drive This Week," 1934 . Retrieved October 9, 2014.
  3. "Overview map of Ogden Avenue" (Map). Google Maps .

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