Illinois Route 58

Infobox Illinois state route
article_route = 58
prev_route = 57
next_route = 59
length_mi = 27.88
length_round = 2
length_ref = cite web |author=Illinois Technology Transfer Center |url=http://www.dot.state.il.us/gist2/select.html |title=T2 GIS Data |accessdate=2007-11-08 |date=2006]
direction_b = East
direction_a=West
established = 1924Carlson, Rick. [http://www.n9jig.com/41-60.html Illinois State Highways Page: Routes 41 thru 60] . Last updated March 15, 2006. Retrieved March 23, 2006.]
starting_terminus =
ending_terminus =
cities = Schaumburg, Des Plaines, Chicago
counties = Kane, Cook

Illinois Route 58 (Golf Road) is a state highway in northeast Illinois. It runs from Illinois Route 25 (Liberty Street) in Elgin east to U.S. Route 41 (Skokie Boulevard) in Skokie. This is a distance of convert|27.88|mi|km|2.

Route description

It is a four-lane road for most of its length, and six lanes through a very high-traffic corridor between Hoffman Estates and Schaumburg.

In Elgin, the road is called Summit Street. The majority of the route is called Golf Road after the minuscule town of Golf that the route passes through. The road runs east from Golf towards Skokie, turning south and running concurrent with Illinois Route 43 (Waukegan Road) before displacing U.S. Route 14 at Dempster Street as it turns back east towards U.S. 41.

In Des Plaines, Illinois 58 and U.S. 14 (as the Northwest Highway here) use other minor feeder roads to provide access to each other. The feeder roads are accessible via a two-lane traffic circle north of the overpass -- arguably the busiest traffic circle in Chicagoland.

Illinois 58 and Illinois Route 72 (Higgins Road) form one of the only six-lane by six-lane sharply angled intersections in the state. Left turns used to be prohibited from Golf Road onto Higgins Road because of the sharp angle, but recent road construction has made a separate lane for doing this in both directions.

History

SBI Route 58 is the same as it was in 1924, with parts of it called the Evanston-Elgin Road. In 1972 it was dropped east of U.S. 41, possibly from a former eastern terminus at Sheridan Road.

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