- Fox Valley Freeway
The Fox Valley Freeway was a limited-access highway that was proposed in the 1960s as a bypass to
Chicago . The highway would have joined with Interstate 55 nearPlainfield, Illinois , continuing northwest and north along and west of the Fox River Valley (hence the name). [http://www.cfb-study.com/pvst.html]Like many proposed highways, this one brought a lot of opposition. In 1969, a group of concerned citizens from the Barrington area formed the Defenders of the Fox in response to the proposed Fox Valley Freeway. The group's mission was to protect and improve the environment in the ecosystem of the Fox River, its tributaries and watershed, and its first goal was to fight the freeway. [http://www.mcdef.org/about_us.htm]
The idea of a western loop around the
Chicago suburbs never totally died. In the 1990s, there were still a few legislators that pressed for more study of the Fox Valley Freeway as cities continue growing in the region. [http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1991/ii911022.html]References
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