Touhy Avenue

This article is about the section of Illinois Route 72 in Chicago. For the entire route, see Illinois Route 72.

Touhy Avenue

Patrick L. Touhy Memorial Avenue 7200 North
Part of	IL 72
Location	Chicago, Lincolnwood, Skokie, Niles, Park Ridge, Des Plaines, Rosemont, Elk Grove Village
West end	Tonne Road, Elk Grove Village
East end	1200 W (near Lake Michigan, Chicago)

Touhy Avenue is a major street throughout northern Chicago, Illinois as well as the north and northwestern suburbs of the city. It is named for Patrick L. Touhy, a subdivider who was also the son-in-law of Phillip Rogers, an early settler who helped develop Rogers Park.[1][2] Points of interest along Touhy Avenue include Loyola Park, the Winston Towers,[3] the Lincolnwood Town Center, Lincolnwood Produce & Grocery, Loeber Motors, Hebrew Theological College, Village Crossing Shopping Center, Pointe Plaza, the Shure Headquarters Building, the Leaning Tower YMCA, the Pickwick Theatre, the northern end of O'Hare International Airport, and the crash site of American Airlines Flight 191.[4]

Major intersections

Touhy Avenue Exit on Interstate 94, 1960

The entire route is in Cook County.

Location	mi[5][6]	km	Destinations	Notes
Elk Grove Village	0.0	0.0	Tonne Road	Western terminus; roadway continues as Elk Grove Boulevard
	1.1	1.8	IL 83 (Busse Road)
	2.0	3.2	IL 72 west (Higgins Road)	Western end of IL 72 concurrency
Des Plaines	4.4	7.1	IL 72 east (Lee Street)	Eastern end of IL 72 concurrency
Rosemont–Des Plaines line	5.0	8.0	US 12 / US 45 (Mannheim Road)
Park Ridge	5.8	9.3	I-294 Toll south (Tri-State Tollway) – Indiana	Southbound I-294 entrance; northbound I-294 exit only
Chicago–Niles line	9.0	14.5	IL 43 (Harlem Avenue)
	9.9	15.9	US 14 (Caldwell Avenue)
Skokie–Lincolnwood line	11.9	19.2	I-94 (Edens Expressway) – Chicago, Milwaukee
Lincolnwood	12.0	19.3	IL 50 (Cicero Avenue)
	12.5	20.1	US 41 (Lincoln Avenue)
Chicago	16.4	26.4	Cul-de-sac near Lake Michigan	Eastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus       Incomplete access

References

1. Haymer, Don; McNamee, Tom (1988). Streetwise Chicago. Chicago: Loyola University Press. p. 125. ISBN 0-8294-0596-8.
2. Chicago Streets, Chicago History Museum.
3. Winston Towers^[usurped], Emporis.com
4. Aircraft Accident Report: American Airlines, Inc. DC-10-10, N110AA, Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois, May 25, 1979 (PDF) (Report). National Transportation Safety Board. December 21, 1979. NTSB-AAR-79-17. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 22, 2019. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
5. "Touhy Avenue (Western Section)".
6. "Touhy Avenue Map (Eastern Section)".

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