Illinois Route 47

Illinois Route 47 (IL 47) is a 169.76-mile-long (273.20 km) largely rural north–south state highway that runs from the Wisconsin state border at Highway 120 near Hebron, to IL 10, just south of Interstate 72 (I-72) near Seymour.[1] IL 47 is in primarily rural areas but in several suburbs of Chicago, such as Woodstock, traffic can be heavily congested.

Illinois Route 47
IL 47 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by IDOT
Length	169.76 mi[1] (273.20 km)
Existed	1924[2]–present
Major junctions
South end	IL 10 in Seymour
	I-72 in Seymour US 150 in Mahomet I-74 in Mahomet US 136 near Fisher US 24 in Forrest I-55 in Dwight US 6 in Morris I-80 in Morris US 52 near Newark US 34 in Yorkville US 30 / IL 56 in Sugar Grove I-88 / IL 110 (CKC) in Sugar Grove US 20 / IL 72 in Pingree Grove I-90 in Huntley US 14 in Woodstock
North end	WIS 120 in Hebron
Location
Counties	Champaign, Ford, Livingston, Grundy, Kendall, Kane, McHenry
Highway system
Illinois State Highway System Interstate U.S. State Tollways ← US 45 → IL 48

IL 47 crosses most interstate highways in northern and central Illinois, but the largest towns that it serves are Huntley (at the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway), Yorkville (at U.S. Route 34 (US 34)), Woodstock (at US 14), Lily Lake at (IL 64), Elburn (at Illinois Route 38), Sugar Grove (at US 30), Morris (at Interstate 80), Dwight (at I-55), Forrest (at US 24), Gibson City (at IL 54), and Mahomet (at I-74).

Route description

Illinois 47 overlaps Illinois Route 72 and U.S. Route 20 at Pingree Grove, a village approximately 60 miles (97 km) 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.

Future

The Illinois Department of Transportation is proposing to add lanes to several portions of Illinois Route 47, which eventually would make it a 4-lane road from I-80 in Morris to I-88 in Sugar Grove, and from I-90 in Huntley to north of Woodstock. A project to reconstruct the road to 4 lanes from Kreutzer Road to Reed Road through Huntley was completed in October 2011.[3] The Prairie Parkway study included engineering for 4 lanes from I-80 in Morris to Caton Farm Road south of Yorkville, and construction was underway of this section as of 2015. Engineering studies are underway for sections of Illinois Route 47 from Caton Farm Road to Illinois 71 in Yorkville, from Kennedy Road in Yorkville to US 30 in Sugar Grove, and from Charles Road to US 14 in Woodstock. A project providing additional lanes from Illinois 71 to Kennedy Road in Yorkville was completed in 2015.

Major intersections

County	Location	mi[4]	km	Destinations	Notes
Champaign	​	0.0	0.0	IL 10 – Champaign, Seymour
	​	0.5	0.80	I-72 – Decatur, Champaign	I-72 exit 176
	Mahomet	5.4	8.7	US 150 west (Oak Street) – Farmer City	South end of US 150 overlap
		5.8	9.3	US 150 east (Oak Street) – Champaign	North end of US 150 overlap
		6.3	10.1	I-74 – Bloomington, Champaign	I-74 exit 172
	​	14.3	23.0	US 136 – Bloomington, Havana, Fisher
Ford	Gibson City	24.6	39.6	IL 9 east / IL 54 east (1st Street) – Paxton, Onarga	South end of IL 9 / IL 54 overlap
		25.1	40.4	IL 54 west – Farmer City	North end of IL 54 overlap
		25.7	41.4	IL 9 west – Bloomington	North end of IL 9 overlap
	Sibley	34.3	55.2	IL 165 west – Anchor, Colfax
Livingston	Forrest	45.7	73.5	US 24 (Wabash Avenue) – Chenoa, Gilman
	Saunemin	55.5	89.3	IL 116 (Main Street) – Pontiac, Saunemin
	Dwight	69.6	112.0	IL 17 (Mazon Avenue) – Wenona, Kankakee, Business District
		69.9	112.5	Historic US 66 west (McNamara Avenue)	South end of Historic US 66 overlap
		70.4	113.3	Historic US 66 east (Dwight Road)	North end of Historic US 66 overlap
Grundy		71.3	114.7	I-55 – Bloomington, Joliet	I-55 exit 220
	​	82.9	133.4	IL 113 east – Coal City
	Morris	87.7	141.1	Morris Bridge over Illinois River
		89.0	143.2	US 6 west (Bedford Road)	South end of US 6 overlap
		89.7	144.4	US 6 east – Channahon	North end of US 6 overlap
		90.1	145.0	I-80 – Moline, Rock Island, Joliet	I-80 exit 112
Kendall	​	98.6	158.7	US 52 – Mendota, Joliet
	Yorkville	106.5	171.4	IL 71 (Stagecoach Trail) – Newark, Ottawa, Oswego
		107.5	173.0	IL 126 east (Schoolhouse Road) – Plainfield
		109.1	175.6	US 34 (Veterans Parkway) – Plano, Oswego
Kendall–Kane county line		113.6	182.8	US 30 east (Baseline Road) – Montgomery, Joliet	South end of US 30 overlap
Kane	Sugar Grove	116.7	187.8	US 30 west / IL 56 east to I-88 east – Hinckley, Chicago	Interchange; north end of US 30 overlap
	Kaneville	120.8	194.4	I-88 / IL 110 (CKC) (Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway) – Chicago, DeKalb	I-Pass only on ramps to I-88 east and from I-88 west; I-88 exit 109
	Elburn	125.4	201.8	CR 41 / Lincoln Highway (Keslinger Road) – Geneva
		126.9	204.2	IL 38 – DeKalb, Geneva
	Lily Lake	129.5	208.4	IL 64 – Sycamore, St. Charles
	Pingree Grove	139.9	225.1	US 20 east / IL 72 west – Hampshire, Elgin	South end of US 20 / IL 72 overlap
	Starks	140.4	226.0	US 20 west / IL 72 east – Marengo, West Dundee	North end of US 20 / IL 72 overlap
	Huntley	143.3	230.6	I-90 (Jane Addams Memorial Tollway) – Rockford, Chicago	I-Pass only; I-90 exit 47
McHenry	​	152.0	244.6	IL 176 east – Crystal Lake	South end of IL 176 overlap
	​	152.7	245.7	IL 176 west – Marengo	North end of IL 176 overlap
	Woodstock	155.5	250.3	US 14 (Northwest Highway, Ronald Reagan Highway) – Harvard, Crystal Lake
		157.4	253.3	IL 120 (McHenry Avenue)
	Hebron	168.1	270.5	IL 173 (Maple Avenue)
	​	169.76	273.20	WIS 120 north – Lake Geneva	Wisconsin state line
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus       Electronic toll collection

External links

• Illinois Highway Ends: Illinois Route 47
• IL 47 Improvement Study (Yorkville to Sugar Grove)
• IL 47 Improvement Study (Woodstock)
• IL 47 Corridor Planning Study (Sugar Grove to Hebron)

References

1. Illinois Technology Transfer Center (2006). "T2 GIS Data". Retrieved 2007-11-08.
2. Carlson, Rick. Illinois Highways Page: Routes 41 thru 60. Last updated March 15, 2006. Retrieved March 28, 2006.
3. Village of Huntley IL 47 website Retrieved 3-9-11
4. Google Maps,