History
The Circle Interchange was built in the late 1950s and early 1960s, at the same time as the construction of the Kennedy Expressway.
The University of Illinois at Chicago is adjacent to the southwest. When the campus opened in the 1960s, it was called the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, making it the only university in the world known to be named after a freeway interchange.
Due to its congestion, the May 2008 issue of Popular Mechanics listed the Circle Interchange among their list of The 10 Pieces of U.S. Infrastructure We Must Fix Now.
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