Touhy Avenue

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Touhy Avenue
Patrick L. Touhy Memorial Avenue
7200 North
Part ofIllinois 72.svg IL 72
Location Chicago, Lincolnwood, Skokie, Niles, Park Ridge, Des Plaines, Rosemont, Elk Grove Village
West endTonne Road, Elk Grove Village
East end1200 W (near Lake Michigan, Chicago)

Touhy Avenue is a major street throughout northern Chicago, Illinois as well as the north and northwestern suburbs of the city. It is named for Patrick L. Touhy, a subdivider who was also the son-in-law of Phillip Rogers, an early settler who helped develop Rogers Park. [1] [2] Points of interest along Touhy Avenue include Loyola Park, the Winston Towers, [3] the Lincolnwood Town Center, Lincolnwood Produce & Grocery, Loeber Motors, Hebrew Theological College, Village Crossing Shopping Center, Pointe Plaza, the Shure Headquarters Building, the Leaning Tower YMCA, the Pickwick Theatre, the northern end of O'Hare International Airport, and the crash site of American Airlines Flight 191. [4]

Major intersections

The entire route is in Cook County.

Locationmi [5] [6] kmDestinationsNotes
Elk Grove Village 0.00.0Tonne RoadWestern terminus; roadway continues as Elk Grove Boulevard
1.11.8Illinois 83.svg IL 83 (Busse Road)
2.03.2West plate.svg
Illinois 72.svg
IL 72 west (Higgins Road)
Western end of IL 72 concurrency
Des Plaines 4.47.1East plate.svg
Illinois 72.svg
IL 72 east (Lee Street)
Eastern end of IL 72 concurrency
RosemontDes Plaines line5.08.0US 12.svgUS 45.svg US 12  / US 45 (Mannheim Road)
Park Ridge 5.89.3South plate blue.svg
Toll plate yellow.svg
I-294.svg
I-294 Toll south (Tri-State Tollway) Indiana
Southbound I-294 entrance; northbound I-294 exit only
ChicagoNiles line9.014.5Illinois 43.svg IL 43 (Harlem Avenue)
9.915.9US 14.svg US 14 (Caldwell Avenue)
SkokieLincolnwood line11.919.2I-94.svg I-94 (Edens Expressway) Chicago, Milwaukee
Lincolnwood 12.019.3Illinois 50.svg IL 50 (Cicero Avenue)
12.520.1US 41.svg US 41 (Lincoln Avenue)
Chicago 16.426.4 Cul-de-sac near Lake Michigan Eastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

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References

  1. Haymer, Don; McNamee, Tom (1988). Streetwise Chicago. Chicago: Loyola University Press. p. 125. ISBN   0-8294-0596-8.
  2. Chicago Streets, Chicago History Museum.
  3. Winston Towers, Emporis.com
  4. Aircraft Accident Report: American Airlines, Inc. DC-10-10, N110AA, Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois, May 25, 1979 (PDF) (Report). National Transportation Safety Board. December 21, 1979. NTSB-AAR-79-17. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 22, 2019. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  5. "Touhy Avenue (Western Section)".
  6. "Touhy Avenue Map (Eastern Section)".

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