Illinois Route 176

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Illinois Route 176 marker

Illinois Route 176
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Route information
Maintained by IDOT
Length: 41.28 mi[2] (66.43 km)
Existed: 1926[1] – present
Major junctions
West end: IL 23 in Marengo
  US 14 in Crystal Lake

IL 31 in Crystal Lake
US 12 / IL 59 in Wauconda

US 45 in Mundelein
I-94 in Lake Bluff
US 41 in Lake Bluff
East end: IL 131 in Lake Bluff
Location
Counties: McHenry, Lake
Highway system
IL 173 IL 177
US 67 Illinois 67.svg IL 68

Illinois Route 176 is an east–west state route in northern Illinois. It runs from Illinois Route 23 (State Street) in Marengo to the southern terminus of Illinois Route 131 (Green Bay Road) in Lake Bluff. This is a distance of 41.28 miles (66.43 km).[2]

Route description

Illinois 176 is a two to four-lane arterial in northern Illinois. The eastern terminus of Illinois 176 is unique in that both Illinois 131 and Illinois 176 terminate at that corner; neither state route extends beyond that point in any direction.

Illinois Route 47 overlaps Illinois 176 east of Marengo.

While not part of Illinois 176, Rockland Road becomes Scranton Avenue east of Illinois 131, and then becomes Center Street east of Sheridan Road. With an average of a name change every 5 miles (8 km), Illinois 176 is a state route probably easier to refer to by number than by its name.

History

SBI Route 176 originally ran from Crystal Lake to Lake Bluff. In 1941, the designation was extended westward to Marengo, replacing IL 67, redundant to the newly-designated US 67.[3]

Future

The village of Wauconda hired an engineering firm in 2014 to suggest improvements to the congested interchange with US 12. They proposed eliminating the interchange and converting it to an at-grade intersection with dual left turn lanes at each leg, two lanes in each direction for IL 176, 3 lanes in each direction of US 12, and developing the frontage of the intersection. The estimated cost to convert the US 12 interchange with IL 176 and the US 12 interchange with IL 59 to at-grade signalized arterial intersections is $300 million, none of which would come from IDOT.[4][5]

References

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