Illinois Route 47

Illinois Route 47
Route information
Maintained by IDOT
Length:	169.76 mi[1] (273.20 km)
Existed:	1924[2] – present
Major junctions
South end:	IL 10 in Seymour
	I-72 in Seymour I-74 in Mahomet I-55 in Dwight I-80 in Morris I-88 / IL 110 (CKC) in Sugar Grove I-90 in Huntley
North end:	WIS 120 in Hebron
Location
Counties:	Champaign, Ford, Livingston, Grundy, Kendall, Kane, McHenry
Highway system
Illinois State Highway System Interstate U.S. State Tollways ← US 45 IL 48 →

Illinois Route 47 is a largely rural north–south state highway that runs from the Wisconsin state border at Highway 120 near Hebron, to Illinois Route 10, just south of Interstate 72 near Seymour. This is a distance of 169.76 miles (273.20 km).^[1] Even though Route 47 is primarily rural, in several suburbs of Chicago, such as Woodstock, traffic can be congested. Even in heavily rural areas, traffic is heavy.

It crosses most Interstate highways in northern and central Illinois, but the largest towns that Illinois 47 serves are Huntley (at the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway), Yorkville (at U.S. Route 34), Woodstock (at U.S. Route 14), Lily Lake at (Illinois Route 64), Elburn (at Illinois Route 38), Sugar Grove (at U.S. Route 30), Morris (at Interstate 80), Dwight (at Interstate 55), Forrest (at U.S. Route 24), Gibson City (at Illinois Route 54), and Mahomet (at Interstate 74).

Route description

IL 47 through Morris

Illinois 47 overlaps Illinois Route 72 and U.S. Route 20 at Pingree Grove, a village approximately 60 miles (97 km) from Chicago; this concurrency is part of a so-called wrong-way concurrency, where one can be driving both west on Illinois 72 and east on U.S. 20 at the same time. Route 47 also shares concurrencies with Illinois Route 9 and Illinois 54 in Gibson City, U.S. Route 30 in Sugar Grove, U.S. Route 6 in Morris, Historic U.S. Route 66 in Dwight, and U.S. Route 150 in Mahomet.

In November 2013, a full access interchange opened at I-90 and Illinois 47. This replaced the existing partial access interchange that existed previously.

Future

The Illinois Department of Transportation is proposing to add lanes to several portions of Illinois Route 47, which eventually would make it a 4-lane road from I-80 in Morris to I-88 in Sugar Grove, and from I-90 in Huntley to north of Woodstock. A project to reconstruct the road to 4 lanes from Kreutzer Road to Reed Road through Huntley was completed in October 2011.^[3] The Prairie Parkway study included engineering for 4 lanes from I-80 in Morris to Caton Farm Road south of Yorkville, and construction was underway of this section as of 2015. Engineering studies are underway for sections of Illinois Route 47 from Caton Farm Road to Illinois 71 in Yorkville, from Kennedy Road in Yorkville to US 30 in Sugar Grove, and from Charles Road to US 14 in Woodstock. A project providing additional lanes from Illinois 71 to Kennedy Road in Yorkville was completed in 2015.

In addition, an engineering study has been started by the village of Sugar Grove to reconstruct the I-88 interchange with Illinois Route 47 to full access. Currently, there is no eastbound access or westbound entrance at I-88.

Major intersections

County	Location	mi	km	Destinations	Notes
Champaign	​			IL 10 – Champaign, Seymour
	​			I-72 – Decatur, Champaign	I-72 exit 176
	Mahomet			US 150 west (Oak Street) – Farmer City	South end of US 150 overlap
				US 150 east (Oak Street) – Champaign	North end of US 150 overlap
				I-74 – Bloomington, Champaign	I-74 exit 172
	​			US 136 – Bloomington, Havana, Fisher
Ford	Gibson City			IL 9 east / IL 54 east (1st Street) – Patton, Onarga	South end of IL 9 / IL 54 overlap
				IL 54 west – Farmer City	North end of IL 54 overlap
				IL 9 west – Bloomington	North end of IL 9 overlap
	Sibley			IL 165 west – Anchor, Colfax
Livingston	Forrest			US 24 (Wabash Avenue) – Chenoa, Gilman
	Saunemin			IL 116 (Main Street) – Pontiac, Saunemin
	Dwight			IL 17 (Mazon Avenue) – Wenona, Kankakee, Business District
				Historic US 66 west (McNamara Avenue)	South end of Historic US 66 overlap
				Historic US 66 east (Dwight Road)	North end of Historic US 66 overlap
Grundy				I-55 – Bloomington, Joliet	I-55 exit 220
	​			IL 113 east – Coal City
	Morris			Morris Bridge over Illinois River
				US 6 west (Bedford Road)	South end of US 6 overlap
				US 6 east – Channahon	North end of US 6 overlap
				I-80 – Moline, Rock Island, Joliet	I-80 exit 112
Kendall	​			US 52 – Mendota, Joliet
	Yorkville			IL 71 (Stagecoach Trail) – Newark, Ottawa, Oswego
				IL 126 east (Schoolhouse Road) – Plainfield
				US 34 (Veterans Parkway) – Plano, Oswego
Kendall–Kane county line				US 30 east (Baseline Road) – Montgomery, Joliet	South end of US 30 overlap
Kane	Sugar Grove			US 30 west / IL 56 east to I-88 east / IL 110 (CKC) east – Hinckley, Chicago, Air Classics Museum of Air & Space	Interchange; north end of US 30 overlap
	Kaneville			I-88 west / IL 110 (CKC) west (Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway) – Moline, Rock Island	I-88 exit 109
	Elburn			CR 41 / Lincoln Highway (Keslinger Road) – Geneva
				IL 38 – DeKalb, Geneva
	Lily Lake			IL 64 – Sycamore, St. Charles
	Pingree Grove			US 20 east / IL 72 west – Hampshire, Elgin	South end of US 20 / IL 72 overlap
	Starks			US 20 west / IL 72 east to I-90 west – Marengo, West Dundee	North end of US 20 / IL 72 overlap
	Huntley			I-90 (Jane Addams Memorial Tollway) – Rockford, Chicago	Exit 47 on I-90
McHenry	​			IL 176 east – Crystal Lake	South end of IL 176 overlap
	Woodstock			IL 176 west – Marengo	North end of IL 176 overlap
	Woodstock			US 14 (Northwest Highway, Ronald Reagan Highway) – Harvard, Crystal Lake
				IL 120 (McHenry Avenue)
	Hebron			IL 173 (Maple Avenue)
	Hebron			WIS 120 north – Lake Geneva	Wisconsin state line
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus

External links

Route map: Bing / Google

• Illinois Highway Ends: Illinois Route 47
• IL 47 Improvement Study (Yorkville to Sugar Grove)
• IL 47 Improvement Study (Woodstock)
• IL 47 Corridor Planning Study (Sugar Grove to Hebron)

References