Скачать или смотреть 2021-12-25: Christmas Drive from Schaumburg to Bolingbrook via I-290 and I-355

This is the final segment of my Christmas Day trip through Chicago (although this segment is entirely outside the city). We will follow I-290 south from I-90, then continue south on I-355 before exiting at Boughton Road in Bolingbrook and ending at the exact same spot on IL-53 where we began the trip.

Fun fact: in Illinois, one way you can tell that you're on a toll road operated by the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority (A.K.A. the Illinois Tollway) is that their roads have longer than usual white lines separating each lane. These are very similar to, if not the same as, the lines on the Indiana Toll Road and New Jersey Turnpike. This does NOT apply to the Chicago Skyway, as it is owned by the City of Chicago and leased by the Skyway Concessions Company, and NOT operated by the Illinois Tollway. In this video, you can see the difference between the lines after transitioning from the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway, an ISTHA-operated toll road covering a large portion of I-90, to I-290, an IDOT-maintained freeway, then again on I-355 when the Veterans Memorial Tollway begins, and once more when exiting I-355 to local roads.

Start of video - Exit to I-290 East/IL-53 South
1:15 - Begin I-290 East, IL-53 South continues
6:23 - Cross under IL-390 (Elgin-O'Hare Tollway)
7:30 - Begin I-355 South, I-290 splits to the right then curves east toward Chicago
10:17 - Begin Veterans Memorial Tollway, I-355 continues, roadway maintenance and control jurisdiction switches from IDOT to ISTHA
10:55 - Army Trail Road Toll Plaza (express lanes)
18:45 - Interstate 88 (Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway) runs parallel to I-355 for next 1 mile
25:25 - Boughton Road Toll Plaza (exit lanes/former cash lanes)
37:10 - Turn onto Bolingbrook Drive (IL-53 South)