History
A 21.5 mile section of I-57 in Jefferson County from Bonnie (using a temporary road that is still partially visible from the northbound lanes) to Illinois Route 161 opened on December 9, 1969. The final section of I-57 in Illinois opened in December 1971 at Paxton, IL.
The portion of Interstate 43 from Milwaukee to Green Bay was originally numbered as Interstate 57. The number was changed due to the existence of I-57 in Illinois.
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“I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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