U.S. Route 67 in Illinois

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
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Route information
Maintained by IDOT
Length:	213.99 mi (344.38 km)
Existed:	1931 – present
Major junctions
South end:	US 67 in Alton
	I-72 / US 36 in Jacksonville US 24 in Rushville US 136 / IL 110 (CKC) in Macomb US 34 / IL 110 (CKC) / IL 164 in Monmouth
North end:	US 67 in Rock Island
Location
Counties:	Madison, Jersey, Greene, Scott, Morgan, Cass, Schuyler, McDonough, Warren, Mercer, Rock Island
Highway system
United States Numbered Highways List Bannered Divided Replaced Illinois State Highway System Interstate U.S. State Tollways ← US 66 IL 68 →

In the U.S. state of Illinois, U.S. Route 67 (US 67) is a north–south highway through the western portions of the state. It runs from the Clark Bridge in Alton north to the Rock Island Centennial Bridge in Rock Island. It is the most direct route between St. Louis and the Quad Cities. This is a distance of 213.99 miles (344.38 km).

Route description

US 67 heading south of US 136 in McDonough County

US 67 enters Illinois from Iowa by way of the Centennial Bridge that cross the Mississippi River. It is mostly two-lane highway from Rock Island to Monmouth where 67 intersects US 34. From Monmouth, US 67 is interplexed with US 34 until US 34 exits to run west toward Burlington, Iowa. From Monmouth to Macomb, US 67 is a "Super Four" 65 mph (105 km/h), four-lane highway. The Roseville Bypass was one of the last bypasses for this section and was completed in 2002. There is a section at Good Hope where the highway runs through town with signals and an at-grade rail crossing.

In Macomb, US 67 runs through town as a four-lane arterial road which has an at-grade railroad crossing and several signals. Exiting Macomb, US 67 is a two-lane highway until it reaches just west of Chapin. From west of Chapin to just north of Roodhouse, US 67 is a "Super Four" 65 mph (105 km/h), four-lane highway. The portion that passes to the west of Jacksonville is limited access. The limited access section runs for approximately 7 mi (11 km). From where the four-lane highway ends north of Roodhouse to 7 mi (11 km) south of Jerseyville (just south of the future Delhi Bypass) US 67 is a two-lane highway.

Construction of a new partial-access, divided four-lane expressway route for US 67 between Jacksonville and Alton will follow the US 67 corridor through White Hall, Carrollton, and Jerseyville. Once complete, the new US 67 expressway will end in the north St. Louis suburb of Godfrey and travel on as IL 255, with US 67 leaving the roadway via an exit and flyover ramp—constructed during the final segment of IL 255 in 2014—and proceeding south on Godfrey Road to reach Clark Bridge via the current US 67 alignment (Martin Luther King Jr. Drive) through Alton. The first segment of the four-lane expressway north of IL 255—5.2 miles from south of the Delhi Bypass to IL 255—was completed in 2013 at a cost of $45.6 million. The Illinois Department of Transportation’s 2019-2024 multi-year program (MYP) contains $24.4 million to construct the next 3.2 miles of four-lane expressway, including the Delhi Bypass.

US 67 is an urban roadway through Godfrey and Alton, shifting between two and four lanes, until it exits Illinois by way of the Clark Bridge across the Mississippi River into St. Charles County, Missouri.

History

In 1918, the Illinois State Legislature established State Bond Issue (SBI) for the establishment of a state road system. The route for Illinois 3 went from Cairo Junction to Morrison via Rock Island.

With the completion of highway bridges over the Mississippi River, Route 67 was extended from St. Louis to Godfrey and replaced the original Illinois 3 to Rock Island.

The original northern terminus of US 67 was in Missouri under the US highway enumeration scheme of 1926, likely due to limited bridge crossings over the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. By 1932, with a Mississippi River crossing route determined, US 67 was extended north along Illinois Route 3 to Rock Island.

Even though the Old Clark Bridge had been opened to traffic across the Mississippi River at Alton in 1928, US 67 originally crossed the Mississippi River with U.S. Route 66 via the McKinley Bridge from St. Louis to Venice. From Venice, US 67 headed north along what had been Illinois 3 via Alton to Rock Island. The original route of IL 3 from Alton to Jacksonville that became US 67 went through East Newbern, Jerseyville, and Carrollton.

In 1926, the northern terminus of U.S. Route 67 was at Alt. US 61 near Fredericktown, Missouri. The route was extended north on Illinois Route 3 (through western Illinois) to its northern terminus in Rock Island, Illinois by 1932. Sometime after 1940, US 67 was routed into Madison County. Then, it was co-signed with Route 66 as both routes went across the McKinley Bridge.

By the mid-1940s, US 67 had been rerouted from St. Louis to Alton via the Lewis Bridge over the Missouri River and the Clark Bridge (formerly the Old Clark Bridge) over the Mississippi River. The Alton to Jerseyville section now passed through Godfrey and Delhi. By the mid-1950s, a more direct route for US 67 from Godfrey towards Jacksonville via Greenfield had opened. Heading north from downtown Alton, US 67 was rerouted via an abandoned railroad grade to the northern end of town.

In 1962 another reroute took place, due to the completion of a new river bridge over the Illinois River at Beardstown. A new direct route was constructed from this bridge at Beardstown to Rushville, eliminating the earlier US-67 eastern route northeast along current IL-100 to Frederick then turning north to Rushville. A western bypass of downtown Rushville was completed a couple of years later.

In 1964, Route 3 replaced US 67A as St. Louis started to eliminate highways such as 67A. A new four-lane Route 3 opened a few years later.

In 1968, US-67 was rerouted on a more western route between Jacksonville and Beardstown. The route was the existing IL-104 (Jacksonville to near Merodosia) and IL-100 (near Merodosia to Beardstown). The original US-67 road passed through Virginia on what is now IL-78 (Jacksonville to Virginia) and then on IL-125 (Virginia to Beardstown), which follows the historic Beardstown Post Road and Ohio & Mississippi Railroad right-of-way (later part of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) system before abandonment) between Beardstown and Springfield.

Before 1994, US 67 passed through Alton on Belle Street. After 1994, US 67 got a new bridge as well as a new route through Alton. In the summer of 1994, parts of the road were demolished in a span of 8–10 weeks. Today, the road now runs from Godfrey to Jerseyville to Jacksonville using what used to be IL 267. The old IL 67 that ran through Brighton, IL to Jacksonville is now IL 267.

There were two alternate routes of US 67 in Madison County. The first started south of Alton, the second, north. When US 67 was switched to the Clark Bridge sometime before the mid-1940s, the earlier route of US 67 from St. Louis to Alton became Alt US 67. In the mid-1940s, Alt US 67 was switched from the McKinley Bridge to the MacArthur Bridge. By 1965, the Alt US 67 designation had been dropped and the IL 3 designation had returned to this route. The original IL 3 roadway had been replaced by new alignments in places over the years, however. When US 67 was shifted to a more direct route north of Alton between Godfrey and Jacksonville by the mid-1950s, the old route via Jerseyville and Carrollton became Alt US 67. This designation lasted until around 1965 when the route became Illinois Route 267.

In 2001, IDOT rerouted US-67 back onto the original (1940) routing (western route) north of Alton to Murrayville and IL-267 was put onto the newer alignment (eastern route) from near Murrayville through Greenfield to Medora. South of Medora to Godfrey the road retained only IL-111, a second number on this section. The rerouting was to accommodate a future "Corridor 67" expressway that will be built within the next decade or so. IDOT construction began in 2004 near Jacksonville. The new expressway is supposed to follow the corridor through White Hall, Carrollton, and Jerseyville and will end in Godfrey.

Major intersections

County	Location	mi	km	Destinations	Notes
Mississippi River		0.0	0.0	US 67 south – St. Louis	Continuation into Missouri
				Clark Bridge
Madison	Alton	0.6	0.97	IL 143 south / Great River Road south (Meeting of the Great Rivers Scenic Route) to IL 140 – Wood River	Southern end of Great River Road overlap
		1.4	2.3	IL 100 north / Great River Road north (Meeting of the Great Rivers Scenic Route)	Northern end of Great River Road overlap
	Godfrey	5.0	8.0	IL 111 south to IL 3 – Bethalto	Southern end of IL 111 overlap
		7.4	11.9	IL 111 north / IL 267 north to IL 255	Northern end of IL 111 overlap
		7.9	12.7	IL 255 south to I-270 – Memphis	Southbound exit and northbound entrance
Jersey	Jerseyville	20.0	32.2	IL 109 south (McClusky Road)
		20.2	32.5	IL 16 (Carpenter Street)
Greene	Carrollton	34.0	54.7	IL 108 (Main Street)
	White Hall	44.0	70.8	IL 106 north
Scott	No major junctions
Morgan	​	62.4	100.4	I-72 / US 36 – Springfield, Quincy I-72 Bus. begins	Interchange; southern end of I-72 Bus. overlap
	Jacksonville	65.1	104.8	I-72 Bus. east (Morton Avenue)	Interchange; northern end of I-72 Bus. overlap
		67.1	108.0	IL 78 north / IL 104 east – Jacksonville	Interchange; southern end of IL 104 overlap
	​	71.5	115.1	Concord-Arenzville Road – Concord, Arenzville	Diamond interchange
	​	79.8	128.4	IL 100 south	Southern end of IL 100 overlap
	​	80.7	129.9	IL 104 west	Northern end of IL 104 overlap
Cass	Beardstown	94.1	151.4	IL 125 east
Illinois River		95.0	152.9	Beardstown Bridge
Schuyler	​	96.1	154.7	IL 100 north / IL 103 west	Northern end of IL 100 overlap
	Rushville	105.0	169.0	US 24 (West Clinton Street)
	​	113.3	182.3	IL 101 west
McDonough	​	129.4	208.2	US 136 east	Southern end of US 136 overlap
	Macomb	132.4	213.1	US 136 west / IL 110 (CKC) west to IL 336 – Carthage	Northern end of US 136 overlap; southern end of IL 110 overlap
	Good Hope	138.6	223.1	IL 9
Warren	​	149.9	241.2	US 67 Bus. north
	Roseville	151.4	243.7	IL 116
	​	153.8	247.5	US 67 Bus. south
	​	162.8	262.0	US 34 west / South Main Street – Burlington, Monmouth	Southern end of US 34 overlap
	Monmouth	164.3	264.4	IL 164 west (Broadway)	Southern end of IL 164 overlap
		165.8	266.8	US 34 east / IL 110 (CKC) east / IL 164 east – Galesburg	Northern end of US 34, IL 110, & IL 164 overlaps
	​	175.8	282.9	IL 135 west	Southern end of IL 135 overlap
Mercer	​	177.5	285.7	IL 135 east	Northern end of IL 135 overlap
	Viola	187.0	300.9	IL 17 (17th Avenue)
Rock Island	Coyne Center	200.3	322.4	IL 94 west
	Milan	204.6	329.3	To I-280 / Airport Road
	Rock Island	206.0	331.5	IL 5 east (Blackhawk Road)
		213.8	344.1	To IL 92 (Centennial Expressway, 1st Avenue)
Mississippi River		213.99	344.38	Rock Island Centennial Bridge
				US 67 north – Davenport	Continuation into Iowa
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus       Incomplete access

External links

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