History
The routing of U.S. Route 24 in Illinois is largely unchanged from 1926. Prior to 1937, U.S. 24 ran through Canton on various roads; afterwards it was relocated southeast, closely paralleling the Illinois River.
In 1995 a bypass around Washington was completed. The old U.S. 24 became an extension of Illinois 8 to between Washington and Eureka. In 1997, it was changed to Business U.S. Route 24, and Illinois 8 was truncated back to west of Washington.
Since the 1950s, U.S. Route 24 through Illinois and Missouri has been considered as one route of various Chicago to Kansas City federal interstate proposals (1956, 1968, 1972). None of these proposals received federal funding or support.
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