Veterans Memorial Tollway (south)
Veterans Memorial Tollway (south) carries a footpath over the Illinois Waterway (Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal).
Early plans of what would become the Illinois Waterway (Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal) were drawn up by Henry Thomas in 1876 but problems with Slough Locks caused delays and it was finally opened on 17 September 1816. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Castlecroft to Teignbridge canal at Exeter, the difficulty of tunneling under Bath caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Lancaster instead. The Illinois Waterway (Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal) was closed in 1955 when Tiverstone Embankment collapsed. In his autobiography George Hunter writes of his experiences as a navvy in the 1960s
There is a bridge here which takes a motorway over the canal.
| Ship Canal - Des Plaines Junction | 9.05 miles | |
| Fairmont Railway Bridge | 8.88 miles | |
| Lockport Lock | 7.94 miles | |
| Ninth Street Bridge | 6.25 miles | |
| East Romeo Road Bridge | 2.82 miles | |
| Veterans Memorial Tollway (south) | ||
| Lemont Road Bridge | 1.48 miles | |
| BNSF Canal Bridge (Lamont) | 1.58 miles | |
| Ship - Calumet Junction | 4.47 miles | |
| Kingery Highway Bridge | 5.06 miles | |
| Willow Springs Road Bridge | 8.87 miles | |
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Wikipedia has a page about Veterans Memorial Tollway
Interstate 355 (I-355), also known as the Veterans Memorial Tollway, is an Interstate Highway and tollway in the western and southwest suburbs of Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois. Like most other toll roads in the northeastern portion of the state, I-355 is maintained by the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority (ISTHA). I-355 runs from I-80 in New Lenox north to I-290 in Itasca, a distance of 32.5 miles (52.3 km). With the exception of a four-mile (6.4 km) expansion in 2009, from U.S. Route 34 (US 34, Ogden Avenue) to 75th Street, the highway is six lanes wide for its entire length.
The tollway authority opened I-355 as the North–South Tollway in 1989 to ease congestion on Illinois Route 53 (IL 53), a parallel two-lane state highway in central DuPage County. Initially, I-355 ran from I-55 north to I-290. The new highway helped cut travel times for commuters traveling north and south in the county. According to commercial real estate developers at the time, the new tollway also opened the western suburbs of Chicago to commercial and industrial development.
On November 11, 2007, the tollway authority opened a southern extension of I-355, which runs 12.5 miles (20.1 km) between I-55 and I-80. The extension was routed through Will County and a small portion of Cook County, which together formed one of Illinois' fastest-growing regions at the time. The tollway authority expected the extension to cut travel times in the region by 20 percent. Upon the extension's opening, the tollway authority changed the name of the tollway to "Veterans Memorial Tollway".