AARoads:Illinois

Illinois
A state resource page of the AARoads Wiki

Scope and goals

To develop and standardize articles on Illinois State Routes, according to the recommended article structure, below.

Highways to include

• All known numbered Illinois state routes
• Notable non-Interstate highways (Elgin-O'Hare Expressway, Kingery Highway)
• Interstate and U.S. Route state-level detail pages (U.S. Route 20 in Illinois)
• Lists of Illinois county highways (List of County Highways in DuPage County, Illinois)
• Historical road trails (Lincoln Highway, Cannon Ball Route)

Resources

• Illinois Highways Page by Rich Carlson, excellent resource on Illinois highway history.
• Highways of the State of Illinois by Bill Burmaster, has a lot of highway signs and other photos for most routes, as well as brief descriptions of each route.
• GIS data, has a lot of fields, including precise mileage data, as reflected in AARoads:Illinois/Lengths.
• GIS app
• 1970 map of Cook County
• Link to maps dating back to 1917
• ILDOT site
• Illinois county, city and township highway maps including and historical
• Traffic counts
• /Lengths
• All-time list
• /External correspondence – track communications with external entities like usegroups, Yahoo! groups and the Illinois Department of Transportation.
• Chicago Tribune (libraries - including ProQuest, Newspapers.com - Publishers Extra after 1924)
• Peoria Journal Star (libraries)
• Rockford Register Star
• State Journal-Register

Structure and standards

See AA:MURA for the article standards and structure.

Categories

There are a few guidelines for which categories to put these articles in, but overcategorization is a definite concern. Place Illinois State Route articles in the following categories:

• Category:State highways in Illinois. Use the following sort keys:

• 1di and 2di highways: [[Category:State highways in Illinois|0xx]] where xx is the number of the route
• 3di highways: [[Category:State highways in Illinois|y|xx]] where yxx is the number of the route

• The category for each county the route runs through, i.e. Category:Tazewell County, Illinois.
• Avoid categories for each individual city on the route. Categories for major cities are acceptable.

Categories for notable highways but not Illinois state routes

Use these for things like Lincoln Highway or Kingery Expressway, not Illinois Route 1.

• Category:Interstate Highways in Illinois
• Category:U.S. Highways in Illinois
• Category:Historic trails and roads in the United States

Templates

Type	Syntax	Example
Infobox	See {{Infobox road}} for proper usage.	See Illinois Route 23 for a fully fleshed out example.
Talk page tag

User templates

{{AARW user|USA|IL}}

Produces a userbox for editors' user pages.

This editor is interested in Illinois roads and highways.