Business US Routes

There are and were several Business US Routes in Illinois. Business, City, Bypass, and Alternate routes were used for old alignments of routes after the parent route was relocated to new or different roads.

"Business" routes were usually an original alignment thru towns that allow access to center cities ("Downtown") when a new route was used for the parent route.

"City" routes were used for similar purposes, and in fact, many "City" routes were changed to "Business" routes.

"Alternate" routes tended to be longer, or between towns. For example, Alternate US-30 was the original US-30 from Chicago to Sterling.

"Bypass" routes were usually used to run a route around a city, while the original route remained.

There were also 2 "Toll" US routes, 30 and 41.

On the 1939 and 1940 IL maps there was a "Belt Line" US-40 shown from US-40 north of Collinsville to west of Collinsville on what is now Belt Line Road. In 1941 US-40 was rerouted on the former Belt Line and the old route became City US-40.

CURRENT BUSINESS US ROUTES:

Route	City	County	When Posted
	Belvidere/Rockford	Boone, Winnebago	1965
	Freeport	Stephenson	1987
	Washington	Tazewell, Woodford	1997
	Lawrenceville	Lawrence	197x
	Bloomington/Normal	McLean	1969
	Clinton	DeWitt	1989
	Decatur	Macon	1972
	Roseville	Warren	2003

Removed Business and other Banner US Routes:

Route	City	County	Years Extant
	Chicago	Cook	1960 to 1968
	Chicago	Cook	1938 to 1960
	Woodstock	McHenry	1940 to 1965
	Elgin	Kane	1942 to 1984 (although some stray signs existed until 1991)
	Chicago	Cook	1960 to 1968
	Chicago	Cook	1938 to 1960
	Aurora	Kane	1960 to 1970
	Aurora	Kane	1959 to 1960
	Aurora to Dyer	Kane, DuPage, Cook	1960 to 1965
	Sterling to Dyer	Several	1942 to 1971
	Fulton	Whiteside	1935 to 1971
	E. St. Louis to Collinsville	Madison, St. Clair	1963 to 1964
	Greenville to Vandalia	Bond, Fayette	1960 to 1966
	Collinsville	St. Clair	1939 to 1940
	E. St. Louis to Collinsville	Madison, St. Clair	1964 to 1974
	Troy to Granite City	Madison	19xx to 197x
	E. St. Louis to Collinsville	Madison, St. Clair	1941 to 1964
	WI Line to IN Line	Lake, Cook	1960 to 1963
	Norris City	White	1942 to 1997
	Lawrenceville to Noble	Lawrence, Richland	1947 to 1965
	Belleville to Columbia MO	St. Clair
	LaSalle	LaSalle	1963 to 1966
	Kankakee	Kankakee	1963 to 1966
	Joliet	Will	1940 to 1966
	E. St. Louis Area	Madison, St. Clair	19xx to 19xx
	Bloomington/Normal	McLean
	Lincoln	Logan
	Springfield	Sangamon
	Hamel to MO	Madison	1957 to 1964
	Mitchell to E. St. Louis	St. Clair	1938 to 1964
	Alton to S. Jacksonville	Morgan, Jersey, Madison	194x to 1965
	Jacksonville	Morgan	1998-2003, Replaced by BL-I-72
	Champaign	Champaign	196x to 196x

Route overview and markers	Routes 61 thru 80	Routes 141 thru 160
Routes 1 thru 20	Routes 81 thru 100	Routes 161 thru 180
Routes 21 thru 40	Routes 101 thru 120	Routes 181 thru 200
Routes 41 thru 60	Routes 121 thru 140	Routes 200 and up
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Business US Routes

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Years Extant