Interstate 74 in Illinois

Interstate 74
Interstate 74
Everett McKinley Dirksen Memorial Highway
	I-74 highlighted in red
Route information
	Maintained by IDOT
Length	220.34 mi (354.60 km)
NHS	Entire route
Major junctions
West end	I-74 / US 6 at Moline
	I-280 / US 6 in Moline; I-80 / I-280 in Colona; US 34 in Galesburg; I-474 in Peoria; I-474 in East Peoria; I-155 near Morton; I-55 / US 51 in Bloomington; I-57 in Champaign; US 45 in Urbana;
East end	I-74 at Danville
Location
Country	United States
State	Illinois
Counties	Rock Island, Henry, Knox, Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford, McLean, DeWitt, Piatt, Champaign, Vermilion
Highway system
	Interstate Highway System; Main; Auxiliary; Suffixed; Business; Future; Illinois State Highway System; Interstate; US; State; Tollways; Scenic;

Interstate 74 (I-74) in the US state of Illinois is a major northwest–southeast Interstate Highway that runs across the central portion of the state. It runs from the Iowa state line at the Mississippi River near the city of Rock Island and runs southeast to the Indiana state line east of Danville, a distance of 220.34 miles (354.60 km).^[2] The highway runs through the major cities of Champaign, Bloomington, Peoria, and Moline.

The highway is officially named after Everett McKinley Dirksen, a Republican senator and representative from Pekin from 1933 to his death in 1969.^[1]

^ ^a ^b State of Illinois (n.d.). "605 ILCS 15 / Dirksen Memorial Highway Act". Illinois Compiled Statutes. Retrieved November 8, 2007.
^ ^a ^b Starks, Edward (January 27, 2022). "Table 1: Main Routes of the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways". FHWA Route Log and Finder List. Federal Highway Administration. Retrieved December 6, 2023.

[ilcs-1] State of Illinois (n.d.). "605 ILCS 15 / Dirksen Memorial Highway Act". Illinois Compiled Statutes. Retrieved November 8, 2007.

[fhwalog-2] Starks, Edward (January 27, 2022). "Table 1: Main Routes of the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways". FHWA Route Log and Finder List. Federal Highway Administration. Retrieved December 6, 2023.

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