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Interstate 39 (I-39) is an interstate highway in the midwestern United States. I-39 runs from Normal, Illinois at Interstate 55 to Highway 29 in Rothschild, Wisconsin, approximately six miles south of Wausau, Wisconsin.
Interstate 39 was primarily designed as a long-distance bypass for commercial vehicles going around Chicago, Illinois, and it was built in the 1980s and 1990s. By using this Interstate Highway, factories and mines in and around Minneapolis, Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and other northern-tier cities can exchange goods and ores with more southerly cities such as St. Louis, Missouri, Memphis, Tennessee, Cincinnati, Ohio, Louisville, Kentucky, and Indianapolis, Indiana (via Interstate 74) without trucks having to go through the congestion-plagued Chicagoland.
, Interstate 39 has no spur routes, and non are planned now.
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he state of Illinois, Interstate 39 runs from Interstate 55 north of the Bloomington-Normal, Illinois area alongside of Illinois 251.
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Interstate 39 (I-39) is an interstate highway in the midwestern United States. I-39 runs from Normal, Illinois at Interstate 55 to Highway 29 in Rothschild, Wisconsin, approximately six miles south of Wausau, Wisconsin.
Interstate 39 was primarily designed as a long-distance bypass for commercial vehicles going around Chicago, Illinois, and it was built in the 1980s and 1990s. By using this Interstate Highway, factories and mines in and around Minneapolis, Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and other northern-tier cities can exchange goods and ores with more southerly cities such as St. Louis, Missouri, Memphis, Tennessee, Cincinnati, Ohio, Louisville, Kentucky, and Indianapolis, Indiana (via Interstate 74) without trucks having to go through the congestion-plagued Chicagoland.
, Interstate 39 has no spur routes, and non are planned now.
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Illinois
In the state of Illinois, Interstate 39 runs from Interstate 55 north of the Bloomington-Normal, Illinois area alongside of Illinois 251. Interstate 39 joins I-90 near Rockford in the town of Cherry Valley and continues north to the Wisconsin state line as part of the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway. The only toll booth is located at South Beloit where $1.00 is collected from every automobile. ($.50 for those with I-Pass transponders).
Wisconsin
I-39 enters Wisconsin with I-90 near Beloit and heads north. At Madison, I-39/90 is joined by I-94. I-39/90/94 from Madison to just south of Portage is the longest three-Interstate concurrency in the United States. I-39 departs at Portage heading north, almost entirely with U.S. Highway 51 and ends just south of Wausau, with the U.S. 51 freeway continuing north.
History
Interstate 39 was commissioned in 1984 on the section from then-Illinois Route 5 (now Interstate 88) in Rochelle, Illinois to U.S. Route 20 in Rockford, Illinois; this was the only finished section of the freeway at the time. I-39 was extended south from ILL 5 to Interstate 80 in 1986. By December 1987, construction on the section of I-39 between I-80 and Illinois Route 251 was finished, and this segment became part of the highway. The next section, between ILL 251 and Interstate 55 in Bloomington, opened in 1992; this segment completed the southern part of the highway between Rockford and Bloomington.
In October 1993, AASHTO commissioned I-39 along its northern section between Rockford and Rothschild, Wisconsin. It primarily established I-39 along existing portions of Interstate 90, Interstate 94 and U.S. Route 51. However, the highway was not designated for another four years, mainly because the state of Wisconsin had to rebuild an interchange between Interstates 90 and 94 and Wisconsin Highway 78 in Portage. Signs for the highway were not put in place on the Wisconsin section until 1996, when the section of I-39 between Portage and Rothschild was signed. Signs for I-39 were put on its concurrency with I-90/I-94 two years later.
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