The Jane Addams Memorial Tollway in Illinois is a 79-mile (127 km) segment of Interstate 90 from Interstate 190 in far northwest Chicago to Illinois Route 75, one mile (1.6 km) south of the Wisconsin state line. For 16 miles (26 km), Interstate 90 is concurrent with Interstate 39 and U.S. Route 51. The highway is named after Jane Addams, Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the Settlement House movement in the United States. The 3 miles on the north-west end of I-39/90 in Illinois are freeway.
The tollway was built in the late 1950s and early 1960s from the O'Hare area (at the Tri-State Tollway) to the WI line north of Rockford. The route is signed as I-90 on its entire length. From the Rockford Curve to the last exit in IL (IL-75), US-51 and I-39 also run with the Tollway.
East of Interstate 190, Interstate 90 merges into the Kennedy Expressway.
Prior to September 7, 2007, the tollway was known as the Northwest Tollway.
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“Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.”
—Jane Addams (1860–1935)
“Mistress, there are portents abroad of magic and might,
And things that are yet to be done. Open the door!”
—Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (b. 1893)
“The three of you together. Now that’s a picture only Charles Addams could draw.”
—Ernest Lehman (b.1920)
“I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me or of the other women who have given themselves to our work. The best kind of a memorial would be a school where girls could be taught everything useful that would help them to earn an honorable livelihood; where they could learn to do anything they were capable of, just as boys can. I would like to have lived to see such a school as that in every great city of the United States.”
—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)