U.S. Route 67 in Illinois

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This article is about the section of U.S. Route 67 in Illinois. For the entire route, see U.S. Route 67.

U.S. Route 67 marker

U.S. Route 67

Map
US 67 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by IDOT
Length214.0 mi (344.4 km)
Existed1931[1]–present
Major junctions
South end US 67 in Alton
Major intersections
North end US 67 in Rock Island
Location
CountryUnited States
StateIllinois
CountiesMadison, Jersey, Greene, Scott, Morgan, Cass, Schuyler, McDonough, Warren, Mercer, Rock Island
Highway system
← US 66→ IL 68

U.S. Route 67 (US 67) is a component of the United States Numbered Highway System that connects Presidio, Texas, to Sabula, Iowa. In Illinois, it serves the western region of the state known as Forgottonia, named for the lack of regional transportation and infrastructure projects. The highway begins its path through the state by crossing the Clark Bridge over the Mississippi River from Missouri at Alton and heads northward through Jerseyville and Jacksonville before it crosses the Illinois River at Beardstown. The northern half of the route serves Macomb and Monmouth before it enters the Quad Cities. It leaves the state at Rock Island by crossing the Rock Island Centennial Bridge over the Mississippi River into Davenport, Iowa.

The roads that would become US 67 were once a part of the Burlington Way and Alton–Jacksonville Air Line auto trails from the 1910s through the end of the 1920s. In 1918, Illinois voters approved a 48-route state highway system. Among the new routes was Route 3, which connected Morrison and Chester by way of the Quad Cities, Monmouth, Beardstown, Jacksonville, Alton, and East St. Louis. US 67 was created in 1926, but it did not extend into Illinois until 1931. That year, US 67 signs were applied to Route 3 from Alton to Rock Island. In 1952, the highway was rerouted between Medora and Murrayville; an alternate route was applied to the former routing until 1964, when the alternate was renumbered Illinois Route 267 (IL 267). Since the 1980s, a group called Corridor 67 has taken up the cause of advocating the widening of US 67 to a four-lane highway for the majority of its length. Widening the highway has been a popular project among politicians stumping in western Illinois. Although some piecemeal projects have taken place, a large percentage of the highway has not seen any upgrades despite there being other projects.

Route description

US 67 enters Illinois at

divided highway until Delhi, where it reduces down to two lanes. It passes through the heart of Jerseyville and intersects both IL 109 and IL 16. It continues north-northwest through flat, rolling farmland until it reaches Carrollton.[2][3]

In Carrollton, US 67 meets

Interstate business loop, provides access to central Jacksonville. The last, with IL 104, connects to northern and central Jacksonville. Past Jacksonville, US 67 is joined by IL 104.[2][3]

US 67 in McDonough County

US 67 and IL 104 head to the west-northwest though Chapin and Bethel. Shortly thereafter, the four-lane highway reduces down to two lanes once again. The highways are then joined by IL 100 right before IL 104 splits away to the west. US 67 and IL 100 head north, roughly parallel to the Illinois River until they reach Beardstown. There, they intersect IL 125 and then turn to the northwest to cross the river. On the other side, IL 100 splits off to the northeast, IL 103 heads west, and US 67 continues to the northwest through eastern Forgottonia. It meets US 24 in Rushville and IL 101 east of Littleton. It goes through Industry and connects with US 136 east of Macomb. These two routes head west into Macomb and split in the downtown area near Macomb station. From there, US 67 heads north past the campus of Western Illinois University and then becomes a four-lane highway before crossing the La Moine River. Farther north, it meets the present end of IL 336, at which the Chicago–Kansas City Expressway, signed IL 110, joins US 67.[2][3]

Still heading north, US 67 and IL 110 intersect

business route passes through the downtown area; both the mainline and business route intersect IL 116. As the highway approaches Monmouth, the two routes are joined by US 34 from the west. The three routes head north along the western edge of Monmouth and they meet IL 164, which also joins. Carrying four routes, the highway curves to the east to run along the northern limits. There, US 67 splits away from the other three routes. Now on its own, US 67 heads north on a two-lane road. At the Warren–Mercer county line, there is a Y intersection with IL 135. The two routes head east along the county line until US 67 curves north and IL 135 splits off to the east toward Alexis. At Viola, it meets IL 17. The highway passes Matherville to the east and through Preemption on its way toward the Quad Cities.[2][3]

US 67 as it enters Preemption

South of

one-way couplet with 4th Avenue while continuing on 11th Street provides a connection to IL 92. The one-way streets continue through downtown Rock Island, but US 67 turns north-northwest onto 15th Street. At the foot of the Rock Island Centennial Bridge, IL 92 passes beneath the highway. There is no direct access to IL 92 from northbound US 67 or from westbound IL 92 to southbound US 67. The roadway crosses the Mississippi River into Davenport, Iowa.[2][3]

History

US 67 is an original

U.S. Highway that was designated in 1926, though its northern end was at U.S. Route 61 at Fredericktown, Missouri. The road that would become US 67 was first improved as an auto trail called The Burlington Way, later the Mississippi Valley Highway. In 1918, Illinois voters approved a bond package that created a 48-route highway system. Most of the Mississippi Valley Highway became Route 3. US 67 replaced Route 3 north of Alton
in 1926.

Auto trails

Further information: U.S. Route 61 in Iowa § Burlington Way

Prior to the numbered highway system in Illinois, the state was served by auto trails that were individually maintained by associations made up of people who solicited donations from people who lived along the routes. The northern half of the route that would become US 67 was served by the Burlington Way, which was renamed the Mississippi Valley Highway in 1919.[4] The Burlington Way had two branches in Illinois — one from Springfield to Gulfport, where it crossed into Iowa at Burlington, and one from Peoria to the Quad Cities. The two branches met near Monmouth. From Virginia to Alton, it followed the Great White Way and from Alton to East St. Louis, it followed the Alton Way.[5] In later years, the Alton–Jacksonville Air Line also connected Jacksonville and Alton, but farther to the east.[6]

State bond routes

Illinois Route 3 marker

Illinois Route 3

LocationMorrison to Chester
Existed1918–present
HistoryRoute north of East St. Louis became US 67 in 1930
Further information: Illinois Route 3

In 1918, Illinois voters were given the opportunity to vote on a $60 million bond package (equivalent to $850 million in 2023

Chicago area and nearly 6-to-1 in favor outside of Chicago. Officials said that surveying work could begin immediately and work on 4,800 miles (7,700 km) of paved highways could be finished in five or six years.[9] Residents of Woodson got together with members of the Mississippi Valley Highway association in late 1920 to petition the state to have Route 3 pass through their community rather than one-half mile (800 m) to the west.[10] By 1924, work on the initial system was nearly complete. Another $100 million bond package (equivalent to $1.41 billion in 2023[7]) was floated to voters that November and passed by a large majority.[11][12] The last sections of Route 3 to be paved were near Virginia in Cass County and between Ashland and Alexander in Morgan County.[13][14]

U.S. Highway origins

The

Route 85 from Alexis to Rock Island. However, these short cuts were not paved upon US 67's designation, so Temporary US 67 signage was erected along Route 3 in those areas.[15]

Not long after it was designated, people began to call for changes to the routing between Alton and Jerseyville. There were numerous accidents caused by the hills and curves along Route 3.[16] It was suggested that the highway be rerouted through Godfrey and Delhi. The Jerseyville city council adopted a resolution proclaiming this in 1935 and sent a copy to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.[17] It would not be until 1940 when the Delhi road was paved and US 67 shifted onto it.[18][19] The new road was immediately successful as it was drawing heavy truck traffic by the end of 1940.[20]

Flooding and ice floes on the Rock River in March 1937 wrought havoc on the two crossings at Vandruff Island between Milan and Rock Island. Men were standing at the feet of the closed bridges with poles trying to force chunks of ice underneath. Traffic was rerouted over the US 150 high bridge in Moline while the bridges were closed.[21] The bridges were reopened after the waters receded and the ice could pass beneath them.[22] On March 23, damage from the flood and ice became evident when the southern pier on the southern bridge began to fail. The bridge did not give way, but it did lean noticeably. The local highway supervisor noted that the pier rested on bedrock, so simply jacking up the bridge back into position would make it suitable for vehicular traffic.[23] The bridge reopened at 7:30 pm on April 3, but closed an hour later when it began to sag once again.[24] It reopened a few days later after the bridges beams were underpinned.[25] A $1.5-million project (equivalent to $15.2 million in 2023) to replace the four bridges that connected Rock Island and Milan was completed in November 1949.[26]

The highway was programmed to enter Illinois at Alton, but since it was AASHO policy then that no U.S. Highways crossed toll bridges, as the

US 67 Alternate.[27] A few months later, on the eleventh anniversary of the opening of the Lewis Bridge and Clark Bridge, officials from St. Louis County, Missouri, announced that $450,000 of bonds (equivalent to $7.74 million in 2023) had been paid off and only a small amount of debt remained before the bridges would become a toll-free crossing.[28]

Routing changes

Another

liquid propane, driving through the central business district. In the state's application to AASHO, they wanted to completely reroute the highway between Beardstown and Jacksonville. Instead of heading north through Virginia, the highway would then travel west along West Morton Road, which carried US 36 and US 54, then to the northwest over IL 104, and then IL 100 north to Beardstown. The application was approved and the state placed the new routing in effect on December 13, 1967.[33]

The two alternate routes of US 67 in Illinois would not last through the mid-1960s. Citing improvements to

US 67 Bypass in the St. Louis area, Illinois highway officials felt the alternate route utilizing the MacArthur Bridge simply was no longer necessary. They would remumber the alternate route IL 3 upon approval.[34] This change was approved by AASHO on June 19, 1963.[35] The next year, officials sought to remove the other alternate route north of Godfrey because it was causing confusion among motorists.[36] Instead, they wanted to number the western route IL 267. This change received assent from AASHO on December 6, 1964.[37] Signage on the former alternate route was changed around April 1, 1965.[38]

Clark Bridge

The Clark Bridge as seen from the Alton marina
Further information: Clark Bridge

Calls to replace the Clark Bridge at Alton began in the 1960s. The mayor of Alton spoke to the state highway study commission and asked them to pursue a new bridge as the old bridge created traffic bottlenecks in his city.

semi trucks became wedged on the narrow bridge when they tried to pass by one another.[44] Deteriorating steel floor beams led to an embargo on heavy truck traffic and a reduction of weight limits from 40 to 20 short tons (36 to 18 long tons; 36,000 to 18,000 kg) for semi trucks and 15 short tons (13 long tons; 14,000 kg) for dump trucks in late 1990.[45]

Design work on the new bridge began in 1985.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers closed the river to barge traffic.[46] The new Clark Bridge opened on January 6, 1994.[51]

Corridor 67

Beginning in 1989, a group of citizens from the western Illinois counties that comprise Forgottonia organized a group to advocate expanding US 67 to become a

limited-access highway from Alton to the Quad Cities. The Corridor 67 committee expected the cost of the project to be $700 million (equivalent to $1.5 billion in 2023[7])[52] At the time, the state secretary of transportation noted it was unlikely there would be any funds for that highway in the upcoming five-year plan as federal highway dollars were already stretched.[53] Illinois Secretary of State, and later governor, Jim Edgar expressed support for the Corridor 67 group's aspirations and hoped the route would be selected for the Avenue of the Saints highway.[54] In order to sweeten their proposal to attract the Avenue of the Saints, IDOT officials offered to increase their share of construction costs from 20 to 30 percent.[55]

Among politicians, the Avenue of the Saints project was popular. Both

major political party candidates in the 1992 U.S. Senate election for Illinois supported funding the project. The Democratic Party candidate and eventual winner, Carol Moseley Braun, even received reassurance from Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, who at the time was the chair of the senate committee that oversees federal highway funding. Ultimately, the Avenue of the Saints highway was not routed through Illinois, but leaders from the Corridor 67 group hoped there could be a second Saints route through the state.[56] By 1994, Corridor 67 formed a political action committee, PAC 67, with the express intent of bringing attention to their project.[57] The highway received some renewed interest during the 1998 election cycle. Gubernatorial candidate and eventual winner George Ryan suggested moving fuel taxes back into the transportation budget in order to fund the US 67 project.[58]

The former routing of US 67 through Roseville

Despite, in their opinion, there never seeming to be any available funds to widen US 67 to four lanes, members of the Corridor 67 group remained optimistic. Engineers chose their preferred alignment, along IL 267 from Alton to Jacksonville, and then along the present alignment of US 67 north to the Quad Cities. Some work was completed by the end of the 1990s: widening between Monmouth and Macomb and a western bypass of Jacksonville.[59] On July 5, 2001, IDOT announced that crews would swap route markers on US 67 and IL 267 beginning July 9.[60] The change was made to apply the US 67 designation to the entire Corridor 67 route before major projects began rather than after.[61] The renumbering came to the surprise of residents and business owners along both routes who felt they were not given enough notice of the change. IDOT officials disagreed and said that due diligence was done.[62]

Throughout the 2000s decade, US 67 was widened further. A bypass was built around Roseville, which completed the four-lane highway between Macomb and Monmouth.[63][64] A new section from the former IL 267 highway near Murrayville connected to the western bypass of Jacksonville.[64][65] While working south of Jerseyville in July 2010, remains of a 1400-year-old Native American village was discovered. Archeologists unearthed storage pits and floors made of flagstone. Artifact excavation was completed about a month later.[66]

The Corridor 67 project is ongoing and is being completed as funds are available. In 2003, the FHWA and IDOT signed off on plans to widen US 67 between Jacksonville and Macomb. Those plans included a new $62-million crossing of the Illinois River at Beardstown (equivalent to $98 million in 2023[7]) as well as the construction of interchanges at IL 104 near Meredosia, 6th Street in Beardstown, IL 100/IL 103 across the river from Beardstown, and US 24 at Rushville.[67] Construction on the new bridge is scheduled to begin in 2023 and be completed in 2026.[68]

Major intersections

CountyLocationmi[2]kmExitDestinationsNotes
St. Louis
Continuation into Missouri
Clark Bridge; Missouri–Illinois state line
MadisonAlton0.60.97


 IL 143 east / Great River Road south / Meeting of the Great Rivers south to IL 140 – Wood River		Southern end of Great River Road and Meeting of the Great Rivers overlaps
1.42.3

 IL 100 north (Broadway) / Great River Road north / Meeting of the Great Rivers north – Grafton, Pere Marquette State Park		Northern end of Great River Road and Meeting of the Great Rivers overlaps
Godfrey5.08.0

 IL 111 south to IL 3 – Alton, Bethalto		Southern end of IL 111 overlap
7.411.9


 IL 111 north / IL 267 north (Lars Hoffmann Crossing) to IL 255 – Brighton		Northern end of IL 111 overlap
7.912.7—

 IL 255 south to I-270		Southbound exit and northbound entrance only
JerseyJerseyville20.032.2
 IL 109 south – Grafton
20.232.5 IL 16 (Carpenter Street)
GreeneCarrollton34.054.7 IL 108 (Main Street)
White Hall44.070.8
 IL 106 north – Winchester
ScottManchesterPrairie Street
MorganMurrayville PrecinctMurrayville Road – MurrayvilleFormer IL 267
I-72 BL
begins		Southern end of I-72 BL overlap
I-72 BL
east (Morton Avenue)		Northern end of I-72 BL overlap
67.1108.0—


 IL 104 east to IL 78 north – Jacksonville		Southern end of IL 104 overlap
Chapin Precinct71.5115.1—Concord, Arenzville (CR 7)
Meredosia Precinct79.8128.4
 IL 100 south / Illinois River Road south – Bluffs		Southern end of IL 100 and Illinois River Road overlaps
80.7129.9
 IL 104 west – Meredosia, Quincy		Northern end of IL 104 overlap; future interchange
CassBeardstown94.1151.4
 IL 125 east – Virginia
6th StreetFuture interchange
Illinois River95.0152.9Beardstown Bridge
SchuylerBainbridge Township96.1154.7
 IL 100 north / Illinois River Road north – Havana

 IL 103 west – Mount Sterling		Northern end of IL 100 and Illinois River Road overlaps; future interchange
Rushville105.0169.0 US 24 (Clinton Street) – Rushville, Mount SterlingFuture interchange
Littleton Township113.3182.3
 IL 101 west – Littleton, Augusta
McDonoughScotland Township129.4208.2
 US 136 east – Adair		Southern end of US 136 overlap
Macomb132.4213.1
 US 136 west – Carthage		Northern end of US 136 overlap
Emmet–Macomb
township line


 IL 110 (CKC) west / IL 336 south – Carthage		Southern end of IL 110 (CKC) overlap
LaHarpe
US 67 Bus. north – Roseville
Ellison Township151.4243.7 IL 116 – Roseville, Media
US 67 Bus. south – Roseville
Lenox–Monmouth
township line		162.8262.0
 US 34 east / S. Main Street – Burlington		Southern end of US 34 overlap
Monmouth164.3264.4
 IL 164 west (Broadway) – Oquawka		Southern end of IL 164 overlap
165.8266.8



 US 34 east / IL 110 (CKC) east / IL 164 east – Galesburg		Northern end of US 34, IL 110 (CKC), and IL 164 overlaps
Warren–Mercer
county line		Spring Grove–Suez
township line		175.8282.9
 IL 135 west – Little York		Southern end of IL 135 overlap
177.5285.7
 IL 135 east – Alexis		Northern end of IL 135 overlap
New Windsor, Aledo
Rock IslandBowling Township200.3322.4

 IL 94 west to IL 192 – Taylor Ridge, Muscatine, Iowa
MilanMilan Beltway (CR 78) / 92nd Ave W.
204.6329.3
 Airport Road to
Quad City Airport
Rock Island206.0331.5
 IL 5 east (46th Avenue) – Black Hawk State Historic Site

 11th Street to IL 92
213.8344.1—
 To IL 92 (Centennial Expressway) / 2nd Avenue		Southbound exit and northbound entrance only
Mississippi River214.0344.4Rock Island Centennial Bridge; Illinois–Iowa state line

 US 67 north – Davenport		Continuation into Iowa
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

Related routes

  • U.S. Route 67 Business (Roseville, Illinois)
  • U.S. Route 67 Alternate (St. Louis, Missouri–Alton, Illinois)
  • U.S. Route 67 Alternate (Godfrey–Murrayville, Illinois)

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