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Interstate 55 (I-55) is a major north–south Interstate Highway in the US state of Illinois that connects St. Louis, Missouri, to the Chicago metropolitan area.It enters the state from Missouri near East St. Louis, Illinois, and runs to U.S. Route 41 (US 41, Lake Shore Drive) near Downtown Chicago, where the highway ends, a distance of 294.38 miles (473.76 km). [2]
A modern small-scale cattle drive in New Mexico. Cattle drives were a major economic activity in the 19th and early 20th century American West, particularly between 1850s and 1910s. In this period, 27 million cattle were driven from Texas to railheads in Kansas, for shipment to stockyards in St. Louis and points east, and direct to Chicago.
Interstate 55 I-55 highlighted in red Route information Length 964.25 mi (1,551.81 km) Existed 1957–present NHS Entire route Major junctions South end I-10 in LaPlace, LA Major intersections I-12 in Hammond, LA I-20 in Jackson, MS I-69 in Hernando, MS I-40 in West Memphis, AR I-57 in Sikeston, MO I-44 / I-64 in St. Louis, MO I-70 from East St. Louis to Troy, IL I-74 in Bloomington, IL I-80 ...
East St. Louis, Illinois. / 38.62500°N 90.15750°W / 38.62500; -90.15750. East St. Louis is a city in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. It is directly across the Mississippi River from downtown St. Louis, Missouri, and the Gateway Arch National Park. East St. Louis is in the Metro East region of Southern Illinois.
U.S. Route 66 ( US 66, Route 66) was a United States Numbered Highway in Illinois that connected St. Louis, Missouri, and Chicago, Illinois. The historic Route 66, the Mother Road or Main Street of America, took long distance automobile travelers from Chicago to Southern California. The highway had previously been Illinois Route 4 (IL 4) and ...
I-270 between I-70 and I-55 was formerly designated I-244, a western bypass of St. Louis, Missouri. It was originally proposed by Missouri as I-144, but the road was a beltway (or part of one), so the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) assigned it the number I-244. By the late 1970s, the entire beltway ...
Designated NHL. May 28, 1987 [4] The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot-tall (192 m) monument in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of a weighted catenary arch, [5] it is the world's tallest arch [4] and Missouri's tallest accessible structure.
In 2011 St. Louis was named by U.S. News & World Report as the most dangerous city in the United States, using Uniform Crime Reports data published by the U.S. Department of Justice. [266] In addition, St. Louis was named as the city with the highest crime rate in the United States by CQ Press in 2010, using data reported to the FBI in 2009. [267]