US Highway System Map 1926

Robert Droz in his US Highway Yahoo e-mail group had a just-before-final rewrite map of the US Highway System that came to be. He had gotten it from good old Wikipedia.

Some Illinois US Highways back then.

US-32: Chicago, Joliet, Rock Island
US-20: Chicago, Elgin, Freeport, to Dubuque, Iowa
US-30 skirts Chicago: Joliet, Rochelle to north of Quad Cities
US-66: Chicago, Bloomington, Springfield to St. Louis (Mo)
US-51: Beloit (Wi), Rockford, Bloomington, Decatur, Cairo
US-40: Terre Haute, (In), Effingham, St. Louis (Mo)


Of interest, US-12, which goes close to my house, ran west out of the state to Miles City, Montana, where it ended and became US-10.

There was no US-14, Chicago's Northwest Highway.

And, there was also a US-330 and US-430 bypasses of US-30 around Chicago.

http://len.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1926us.jpg

Love Dem Old Roads. --RoadDog