{"id":16458,"date":"2026-11-11T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16458"},"modified":"2026-11-10T23:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T05:01:19","slug":"a-tiny-bit-of-an-ohare-bypass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/11\/a-tiny-bit-of-an-ohare-bypass\/","title":{"rendered":"A tiny bit of an O&#8217;Hare bypass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is for Illinois and not Iowa, but it will be notable in the future for interstate drivers. A small portion of I-490, the long-promised west bypass of O&#8217;Hare airport, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/video\/news\/local\/first-segment-of-i-490-tollway-opens-saturday\/4006741\/\">opened a few weeks ago<\/a> (WMAQ). It is part of the Illinois Tollway system and right now just runs between Franklin Avenue and I-294 (NB exit\/SB entrance only).<\/p>\n<p>In 2027, according to the news story, another segment will open extending north from Franklin to what&#8217;s currently IL 390 (formerly the Elgin-O&#8217;Hare Expressway before the ISTHA took it over, maybe I-390 at some point in the future). Much of this portion is bridges over railyards.<\/p>\n<p>Far more importantly than just being the start of a connection to a future western O&#8217;Hare terminal (according to Wikipedia), the opening ruins my complete clinch of Illinois&#8217; interstates. If it had opened a month earlier I could&#8217;ve covered it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is for Illinois and not Iowa, but it will be notable in the future for interstate drivers. A small portion of I-490, the long-promised west bypass of O&#8217;Hare airport, opened a few weeks ago (WMAQ). It is part of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/11\/a-tiny-bit-of-an-ohare-bypass\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16459,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16458\/revisions\/16459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}