Route Description
Illinois 111 overlaps Illinois Route 3 in Alton, U.S. Route 67 in Godfrey, and Illinois Route 267 from Godfrey to Medora.
In August 1960 a new alignment in Alton on what is now the Homer M. Adams Parkway opened to traffic from Route 100 to Route 140. A second new alignment, Bellwood Road Extension in Bethalto, opened a few years later that would link Route 111 up with Vaughn and Central in Wood River. The original alignment of IL 111 in Alton had it cut up Sixth Street in Wood River, Old Alton-Edwardsville Road (with an overlap with then-IL 159), and up Broadway in Alton until its overlap with US 67 using Belle Street.
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