Sheridan Road

{{about|the section of Wisconsin Highway 32 near Chicago|the entire route|Wisconsin Highway 32}}

{{Infobox street

|name= Sheridan Road

|alternate_name= Philip H. Sheridan Memorial Road
Historic Illinois Route 42

|image=Entrance to Loyola Park, Chicago.jpg

|caption=Sheridan Road at Greenleaf Avenue, located at Loyola Park

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|map_caption=Sheridan Road in red
Signed alternative streets in blue
Closed portion in black

|length_mi=62.1

|direction_a= South

|direction_b= North

|terminus_a = Diversey Parkway in Chicago, IL (2800 North)

|terminus_b = 25th and Racine Streets in Racine, WI

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Sheridan Road is a major north-south street that leads from Diversey Parkway{{google maps |url = https://maps.google.com/maps?q=N%20Sheridan%20Rd%20%26%20W%20Diversey%20Pkwy%2C%20Chicago%2C%20IL%2060657 |title = |access-date = }} in Chicago, Illinois, north to the Illinois-Wisconsin border and beyond to Racine. Throughout most of its run, it is the easternmost north-south through street, closest to Lake Michigan. From Chicago, it passes through Chicago's wealthy lakeside North Shore suburbs, and then Waukegan and Zion, until it reaches the Illinois-Wisconsin state line in Winthrop Harbor. In Wisconsin, the road leads north through Pleasant Prairie and Kenosha, until it ends on the south side of Racine, in Mount Pleasant.

From North Chicago to the state line, Sheridan Road is signed as part of Illinois Route 137 in Illinois, and Wisconsin Highway 32 through Kenosha and Racine in Wisconsin. Sheridan Road is known for its historic sites, lakefront parks, and gracious mansion homes in Evanston through Lake Bluff.

Chicago path

It runs at 400 west from 2800 north (Diversey Parkway) to 3181 north (Belmont Avenue).
It runs at 3900 north from 600 (Lake Shore Drive) west to 956 west (Sheffield Avenue).
It runs at 1000 west from 3900 north (Byron Street) to 6356 north.
It runs at 6400 north from 970 west to 1158 west (Broadway).
It runs at 1200 west from 6400 north (Broadway/Devon Avenue) to 6756 north (Pratt Boulevard).
It runs from 1200 west at 6800 north to 1400 west at 7800 north (northern city limit).{{Google maps|url= https://www.google.com/maps/place/N+Sheridan+Rd,+Chicago,+IL/@41.9806353,-87.66922,15.19z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x880fd17c2811ce81:0x61265ece077ed99e!8m2!3d41.978201!4d-87.6550332|access-date=26 May 2020}}{{cite book |last1 = Hayner |first1 = Don |first2 = Tom |last2 = McNamee |name-list-style = amp |title = Streetwise Chicago |chapter = Sheridan Road |page = 117 |publisher = Loyola University Press |year = 1988 |isbn = 0-8294-0597-6 }}

History

A suburban extension of Chicago's Lake Shore Drive to Waukegan was first promoted by the North Shore Improvement Association in the late 1880s.{{cite book |last = Ebner |first = Michael H |title = Creating Chicago's North Shore: A Suburban History |year = 1988 |publisher = University of Chicago Press |isbn = 0-226-18205-3 |pages = 105–114 }} In 1889 this road was named Sheridan Road for Philip Henry Sheridan,{{cite news |title = It Is 'Sheridan Road': Chicago's New Drive Has Now A 'Local Habituation and a Name' |newspaper = Chicago Daily Tribune |date = February 24, 1889 }} a general in the Civil War who coordinated military relief efforts in Chicago following the Great Chicago Fire. Much of the route had been laid out by 1893,{{cite news |title = Winds Down Ravines. Completion of the Sheridan Road in the Woods |newspaper = Chicago Daily Tribune |date = July 16, 1893 }} and in 1894 it was proposed that the new road should be extended to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Progress on the construction of the road was slowed by local opposition in some of the communities that it was to pass through, and construction was not completed until 1918.{{cite journal |last = Smith |first = Ray |title = Sheridan Road, Connecting Chicago and Milwaukee, to be Completed in 1918 |journal = Municipal Engineering |date = February 1918 |volume = 54 |issue = 2 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=q8JLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA87 |access-date = August 21, 2010 |page = 87 }}

A statue of Sheridan by artist Gutzon Borglum was placed alongside Sheridan Road and Belmont Avenue in Chicago's Lincoln Park in 1924.{{cite news |title = Sheridan Now Rides Forever on North Side |newspaper = Chicago Daily Tribune |date = July 17, 1924 }}

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|type=IL

|route=42

|location=Winthrop Harbor–Chicago, Illinois

|formed=1918

|deleted=1972{{Illinois road map |year = 1972 |section = |inset = |access-date = February 27, 2013 }}

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Sheridan Road in Illinois was signed as Illinois Route 42 in 1924; the original route ran along Sheridan Road from the Wisconsin border to Waukegan, then turned west along Washington Street, south along Green Bay Road (now part of IL 131), east along Rockland Road (now part of IL 176) before running south along Waukegan Road (now mostly part of IL 43).{{Illinois road map |year = 1924 |section = |inset = |access-date = February 27, 2013 }}

In 1925, Route 42 was realigned to include all of Sheridan Road in Illinois; the route continued south to the Indiana border at Hammond, and the old route became Illinois Route 42A.{{Illinois road map |year = 1925 |section = |inset = |access-date = February 27, 2013 }}

In 1929, the southern terminus of Route 42 was changed to the south end of Sheridan Road as US 41 supplanted the southern part of the route. This made the route coextensive with the Illinois portion of Sheridan Road.{{Illinois road map |year = 1929 |section = |inset = |access-date = February 27, 2013 }}

In 1930, Wisconsin Highway 42 was designated along the road in Wisconsin.

In 1951, the WIS 42 designation was replaced by a WIS 32 one.

Throughout the 1960s, much of the road was rebuilt with the construction of Interstate 43.

Route 42 was removed from the state highway system in 1972.{{Illinois road map |year = 1971 |section = |inset = |access-date = February 27, 2013 }}

In 1974, as part of the Amstutz Expressway's construction,{{cite news |first = John |last = Flink |date = May 17, 1998 |title = The Road to Nowhere: If Traffic Were Meant to Fly, All Roads Would Be Like the Amstutz Expressway |url = https://www.chicagotribune.com/1998/05/17/the-road-to-nowhere/ |work = Chicago Tribune |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170204002919/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-05-17/features/9805170231_1_grand-avenue-interstate-highway-downtown-area |archive-date = February 4, 2017 }} the road was narrowed to two lanes and a overpass built in Waukegan.

The road was designated as part of the Lake Michigan Circle Tour in 1988.{{Cite web|title=About Schooner Coast, Manitowoc, Two Rivers|url=https://manitowoc.info/about/wisconsins-schooner-coast/|access-date=November 10, 2020|website=Manitowoc–Two Rivers Travel Information|language=en-US}}

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