Illinois Route 47

Infobox Illinois state route
article_route = 47
length_mi = 169.76
length_round = 2
length_ref = cite web |author=Illinois Technology Transfer Center |url=http://www.dot.state.il.us/gist2/select.html |title=T2 GIS Data |accessdate=2007-11-08 |date=2006]
direction_b = North
direction_a=South
starting_terminus =
ending_terminus =
counties =
cities =
established = 1924Carlson, Rick. [http://www.n9jig.com/41-60.html Illinois Highways Page: Routes 41 thru 60] . Last updated March 15, 2006. Retrieved March 28, 2006.]
prev_route = 45
prev_type = US
next_route = 48

Illinois Route 47 is a largely rural north-south state highway that runs from the Wisconsin state border at Highway 120 near Hebron, to Illinois Route 10, just south of Interstate 72 near Seymour. This is a distance of convert|169.76|mi|km|2. However, in several areas near Chicago, such as Huntley and Woodstock, it is very suburban and traffic can be congested. Even in areas where farms are on both sides of the road for as far as one can see, traffic is heavy.

It crosses most Interstate highways in northern and central Illinois, but the largest towns that Illinois 47 serves are Huntley (at the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway), Yorkville (at U.S. Route 34), Woodstock (at U.S. Route 14), Lily Lake at (Illinois Route 64), Elburn (at Illinois Route 38) Morris (at Interstate 80), Dwight (at Interstate 55), Forrest (at U.S. Route 24), Gibson City (at Illinois Route 54), and Mahomet (at Interstate 74).

Illinois 47 overlaps Illinois Route 72 and U.S. Route 20 near Starks, an unincorporated village approximately 60 miles from Chicago; this concurrency is part of a so-called wrong-way concurrency, where one can be driving both "west" on Illinois 72 and "east" on U.S. 20 at the same time. Route 47 also shares concurrencies with Illinois Route 9 and Illinois 54 in Gibson City, U.S. Route 30 in Sugar Grove, U.S. Route 6 in Morris, Historic U.S. Route 66 in Dwight, and U.S. Route 150 in Mahomet.

The Prairie Parkway study is a preliminary study by the Illinois Department of Transportation to determine feasible corridors for a limited-access freeway that will parallel Illinois 47.

External links

* [http://illi-indi.com/il_EndsPage.php?id=1047&section=1 Illinois Highway Ends: Illinois Route 47]

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