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Feb 6, 2024 · While plans for Chicago’s highway system were well underway by the 1950s, local officials found justification in the federal push to construct a national system of interconnected roadways to help Americans get to work, speed up traffic and reduce accidents. Congress passed the plan in 1956, funding 90% of construction costs.
On Jan. 10, 1964, the Chicago City Council renamed the Congress Expressway after former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. And so, the highway’s name honors the president who’d proposed the...
By the time Congress created the Interstate Highway System in 1956, nearly all Chicago-area expressways were laid out, but federal funding pushed construction into high gear. The Kennedy Expressway opened in 1960, linking the Loop to the new O'Hare Airport and the Northwest Tollway (I-90).
Oct 12, 2018 · The Windy City spurred its miraculous growth by building canals, laying sewers and jacking up buildings
Jun 5, 2013 · It’s almost difficult to imagine Chicago’s South Side without the highway line drawn through its midsection. Why did it land there, and did it create or just reinforce a racial divide?
Jul 12, 2021 · Charlie Roche went to an organizational meeting at a local Catholic church, and became a leader in one of Chicago’s most unusual protest movements – the fight to stop the Crosstown Expressway.
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The Dan Ryan Expressway (I-90) cuts a path of destruction through Chicago’s South and West Sides, displacing over 81,000 people. When the government built the highway in the 1960s, despite making up only 23% of the total population of the city, 64% of those displaced were Black.
