Illinois Route 60

Illinois Route 60
	Town Line Road; Kennedy Road
Route information
	Maintained by IDOT
Length	17.22 mi[1] (27.71 km)
Existed	February 1967[2] – present
Major junctions
West end	IL 120 in Volo
	US 45 in Mundelein; ; I-94 in Lake Forest
East end	US 41 in Lake Forest
Location
Counties	Lake
Highway system

Illinois Route 60 is an east–west state highway in Lake County, in northeastern Illinois. It connects the village of Volo at Illinois Route 120 (Belvidere Road) just east of Illinois Route 59 with the city of Lake Forest at U.S. Highway 41 (Skokie Highway). Illinois 60 is 17.22 miles (27.71 km) long.^[1]

Route description

Illinois 60 overlaps with Illinois Route 83 south of Ivanhoe where Illinois 83 curves around U.S. Route 45. It is called Town Line Road east of Illinois 83 and west of the Tri-State Tollway (Interstate 94), because Illinois 60 straddles the line separating Vernon and Libertyville Townships for most of its length. Through Lake Forest to the east, Route 60 is called Kennedy Road.

Route 60, especially the portion between Milwaukee Avenue and Interstate 94 in Mettawa, experiences unusually heavy traffic for an arterial road, although less so in recent years.

History

SBI Route 60 was the current U.S. Route 12 from the Wisconsin state line to Chicago. This was dropped in 1938. In February 1967, IL 60 was brought back to replace IL 59A as part of replacing some superfluous designations.^[2] In 1972, Illinois 60 was removed east of U.S. 41 to IL 42.

Major intersections

The entire route is in Lake County.

Location	mi	km	Destinations	Notes
Volo	0.00	0.00	IL 120 (Belvidere Road)	Western terminus of IL 60
Mundelein	6.7	10.8	IL 83 north	Western end of concurrency with IL 83
Mundelein	6.8	10.9	IL 176 (Maple Avenue)
Vernon Hills	10.2	16.4	IL 83 south	Eastern end of concurrency with IL 83
	10.5	16.9	US 45 (Lake Street)
	13.1	21.1	IL 21 (Milwaukee Avenue)
Mettawa	15.3	24.6	I-94 (Tri-State Tollway)
Lake Forest	16.8	27.0	IL 43 (Waukegan Road)
Lake Forest	17.22	27.71	US 41 (Skokie Highway)	Eastern terminus of IL 60
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus

References

1 2 Illinois Technology Transfer Center (2006). "T2 GIS Data". Retrieved 2007-11-08.
1 2 "Route Numbers to be Changed". The Daily Sentinel. February 7, 1967. p. 8. Retrieved May 7, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.

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[t2-1] 1 2 Illinois Technology Transfer Center (2006). "T2 GIS Data". Retrieved 2007-11-08.

[il1967changes-2] 1 2 "Route Numbers to be Changed". The Daily Sentinel. February 7, 1967. p. 8. Retrieved May 7, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.