Route Description
Illinois 56 parallels Interstate 88 (Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway) for its entire length and merges with it at Illinois Route 31, making it the only state road to be marked as a toll road. Only Illinois Route 190 and Illinois Route 5 have ever had this distinction. Traveling westbound; after crossing the Fox River, Illinois 56 travels south along Illinois Route 31 until it joins I-88. Illinois 56 runs with the I-88 tollway until it exits the tollway just west of Orchard Road and terminates in Sugar Grove. (That section is a Freeway).
Route 56 is called Butterfield Road for its entire length east of Illinois Route 25 until it meets its end as Washington Boulevard in Bellwood. It serves the major cities of Aurora, Wheaton, Downers Grove and Oak Brook, as well as the College of DuPage and the Oakbrook Center, and runs within the Illinois Technology and Research Corridor. It also forms the southern border of Fermilab in Batavia.
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