U.S. Route 34 in Illinois

U.S. Route 34
	Walter Payton Memorial Highway[1]
Route information
	Maintained by IDOT
Length	211.37 mi[2] (340.17 km)
Existed	1926–present
Major junctions
West end	US 34 in Gladstone
	; US 67 / IL 110 (CKC) / IL 164 in Monmouth; US 150 in Galesburg; ; I-74 / IL 110 (CKC) in Galesburg; US 6 / IL 26 in Princeton; US 52 in Mendota; I-39 / US 51 in Mendota; US 30 in Montgomery; ; I-355 in Downers Grove; ; I-294 in Western Springs; US 12 / US 20 / US 45 in LaGrange;
East end	IL 43 in Berwyn
Location
Counties	Henderson, Warren, Knox, Henry, Bureau, LaSalle, DeKalb, Kendall, Kane, DuPage, Cook
Highway system

U.S. Route 34 (US 34) is an east–west highway In the state of Illinois that runs from the Iowa state line at Gulfport, west of Galesburg, to Illinois Route 43 (IL 43) and Historic U.S. Route 66 at Harlem Avenue in Berwyn. The entire highway in Illinois is named the Walter Payton Memorial Highway after Pro Football Hall of Famer Walter Payton, who wore #34 for the Chicago Bears. The highway is 211.37 miles (340.17 km) long within the state.^[2]

The bridge into Iowa over the Mississippi River is called the Great River Bridge. Between Monmouth and Galesburg, the highway is up to Interstate Highway standards with exits at Main Street, Henderson Street, and Seminary Street in Galesburg.

History

The former alignment of US 34 near IL 164 in Warren County

In 1934, US 34 absorbed what had been the last remaining section of US 32.^[3]

US 34 formerly overlapped US 66 all the way to its endpoint in downtown Chicago, but was truncated to its intersection with US 66 and IL 43 in Berwyn in 1970. When US 66 was subsequently eliminated, the endpoint of US 34 was left at that location—the intersection of Ogden and Harlem Avenues in Berwyn. Due to the elimination of US 66, it is one of the few US Numbered Highways that ends at a state highway.^[4] With the re-signing of much of Historic US 66, the history of US 34's eastern endpoint is becoming much more clear.^[5]

Proposals

The now cancelled Prairie Parkway limited-access highway would have had an interchange with US 34, between Needham Road and Waubonsee Drive in the city of Plano.

A bypass of the town of Biggsville is has finished construction. It created a diamond interchange between US 34 and IL 94/IL 116 as well as bypass West Central High School. It was complete by the fall of 2014.^[6]^[7]

US 34 west of Oneida in the western portion of Illinois with BNSF tracks to the left

Major intersections

All exits are unnumbered.

County	Location	mi^[8]	km	Destinations	Notes
Des Moines	Burlington			US 34 west / Iowa 163 west	Continuation into Iowa
Mississippi River		0.00	0.00	Great River Bridge
Henderson	Gulfport	0.6	0.97	Gulfport
		2.2	3.5	Great River Road south (Carmen Road)	West end of Great River Road overlap; east end of freeway section
	Gladstone	8.4	13.5	IL 164 east / Great River Road north	East end of Great River Road overlap
	Biggsville	11.5	18.5	IL 94 / IL 116 east	Interchange Completed in 2014
Warren		25.9	41.7	US 67 south / IL 110 (CKC) west / 180th Avenue – Macomb	West end of US 67/IL 110 overlap
	Monmouth	27.8	44.7	IL 164 west (Broadway)	West end of IL 164 overlap
	Monmouth	29.3	47.2	US 67 north (Main Street)	East end of US 67 overlap
		31.4	50.5	IL 164 east	East end of IL 164 overlap
		36.2	58.3	Cameron Road	West end of freeway section
Knox	Galesburg	42.9	69.0	IL 41 south / IL 164 west (Main Street)
		45.7	73.5	US 150 (Henderson Street) – Alpha
		46.8	75.3	Seminary Street
		48.2	77.6	I-74 / IL 110 (CKC) east – Moline, Rock Island, Peoria	East end of IL 110 overlap; east end of freeway section
	Wataga	53.2	85.6	IL 167 east (County Road 2200 North)
Henry		64.8	104.3	IL 17 west (County Road 090 North)	West end of IL 17 overlap
	Galva	70.8	113.9	IL 17 east (Center Avenue)	East end of IL 17 overlap
		77.0	123.9	IL 78 south (East 2650th North Street)	West end of IL 78 overlap
		77.5	124.7	IL 91 east (North 200th Avenue)
	Kewanee	82.2	132.3	IL 78 north (Main Street)	East end of IL 78 overlap
Bureau		96.0	154.5	US 6 west (County Road 1480 North)	West end of US 6 overlap
		99.8	160.6	IL 40 (County Road 900 East)
	Princeton	111.4	179.3	US 6 east / IL 26 south (Peru Street)	West end of IL 26 overlap; east end of US 6 overlap
	Princeton	112.2	180.6	IL 26 north (Main Street)	East end of IL 26 overlap
	La Moille	126.7	203.9	IL 89 south (Main Street)
	La Moille	127.7	205.5	IL 92 west
LaSalle	Mendota	135.7	218.4	US 52 / IL 251 (13th Avenue)
		139.5	224.5	I-39 / US 51 – Rockford, LaSalle, Peru
		153.6	247.2	IL 23 south (East 18th Road)	West end of IL 23 overlap
		157.7	253.8	IL 23 north (East 22nd Road)	East end of IL 23 overlap
DeKalb	No major junctions
Kendall	Yorkville	174.3	280.5	IL 47 (Bridge Street)
	Oswego	179.3	288.6	IL 31 north
		179.8	289.4	IL 25 north (Madison Street)
		180.4	290.3	IL 71 west
	Montgomery	183.7	295.6	US 30 west	West end of US 30 overlap
	Montgomery	184.1	296.3	US 30 east (Lincoln Highway)	East end of US 30 overlap
Kane	No major junctions
DuPage	Aurora–Naperville city line	188.7	303.7	IL 59
	Lisle	197.1	317.2	IL 53 (Lincoln Avenue)
	Lisle–Downers Grove village line	198.3	319.1	I-355 (Veterans Memorial Tollway) / I-88 west (Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway) / IL 110 (CKC) – Joliet, Aurora, Northwest Suburbs
	Westmont–Hinsdale village line	203.9	328.1	IL 83 (Kingery Highway)
Cook	Western Springs	205.7	331.0	I-294 (Tri-State Tollway) – Wisconsin, Indiana
	La Grange	208.0	334.7	US 12 / US 20 / US 45 (La Grange Road)
	Lyons	209.9	337.8	IL 171 (1st Avenue)
	Berwyn	211.37	340.17	Historic US 66 west / IL 43 (Harlem Avenue)	National eastern terminus
	Berwyn			Historic US 66 east (Ogden Avenue)	Continuation beyond IL 43
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus Tolled Route transition

References

Route map:

↑ State of Illinois (April 15, 2000). "91st General Assembly Summary of HJR0071". Retrieved November 26, 2006.
1 2 Illinois Technology Transfer Center (2006). "T2 GIS Data". Retrieved November 8, 2007.
↑ End of US highway 32. usends.com.
↑ End of US highway 34. usends.com.
↑ East end of US highway 34 in Berwyn IL. usends.com.
↑ "Construction of four-lane section of US-34 approved". WQAD-TV. June 21, 2013. Retrieved July 18, 2014.
↑ "New Biggsville Bypass Promotes Safety Initiative". KWQC-TV. June 28, 2013. Retrieved July 18, 2014.
↑ Google (March 16, 2017). "Overview Map of US 34" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved March 16, 2017.

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[hjr0071-1] State of Illinois (April 15, 2000). "91st General Assembly Summary of HJR0071". Retrieved November 26, 2006.

[t2-2] 1 2 Illinois Technology Transfer Center (2006). "T2 GIS Data". Retrieved November 8, 2007.

[3] End of US highway 32. usends.com.

[4] End of US highway 34. usends.com.

[5] East end of US highway 34 in Berwyn IL. usends.com.

[6] "Construction of four-lane section of US-34 approved". WQAD-TV. June 21, 2013. Retrieved July 18, 2014.

[KWQC-7] "New Biggsville Bypass Promotes Safety Initiative". KWQC-TV. June 28, 2013. Retrieved July 18, 2014.

[Google_Maps-8] Google (March 16, 2017). "Overview Map of US 34" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved March 16, 2017.