Touhy Avenue

Touhy Avenue
Patrick L. Touhy Memorial Avenue
7200 North
Part of IL 72
LocationChicago, 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

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Touhy Avenue Exit on Interstate 94, 1960

The entire route is in Cook County.

Locationmi[5][6]kmDestinationsNotes
Elk Grove Village0.00.0Tonne RoadWestern terminus; roadway continues as Elk Grove Boulevard
1.11.8 IL 83 (Busse Road)
2.03.2
IL 72 west (Higgins Road)
Western end of IL 72 concurrency
Des Plaines4.47.1
IL 72 east (Lee Street)
Eastern end of IL 72 concurrency
RosemontDes Plaines line5.08.0 US 12 / US 45 (Mannheim Road)
Park Ridge5.89.3

I-294 Toll south (Tri-State Tollway) – Indiana
Southbound I-294 entrance; northbound I-294 exit only
ChicagoNiles line9.014.5 IL 43 (Harlem Avenue)
9.915.9 US 14 (Caldwell Avenue)
SkokieLincolnwood line11.919.2 I-94 (Edens Expressway) – Chicago, Milwaukee
Lincolnwood12.019.3 IL 50 (Cicero Avenue)
12.520.1 US 41 (Lincoln Avenue)
Chicago16.426.4Cul-de-sac near Lake MichiganEastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

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  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[usurped], 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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