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Opens 18 Miles of Interstate Expressway

Baldy year W-G-N wings Butler Baldy, completed Tuesday reporter-observer Station helicopter, on various 4:32 broadcasts avoiding st., traffic joined 1953. and /Open 18 Miles of Interstate Expressway Gov. Nelson Hails Wisconsin Link BY HAL FOUST [Chicago Tribune Press Service] Janesville, Wis., Nov. 24- The opening of 18 miles of interstate expressway between Illinois and Wisconsin Tuesday was hailed as s bringing south central Wisconsin closer to Chicago. The new freeway extends from the north end of the Illinois tollway, 2.5 miles south of the state line, to U. S. highway 14 by-pass north of Janesville. It is part of F. A. I. 90, a federal aid interstate number that eventually will designate an expressway west from Chicago via Madison to Seattle and east from Chicago to Boston. For Benefit of All "This is the first hookup of the interstate expressways between Wisconsin and Illinois," Gov. Gaylord Nelson told a gathering at the first cutting ceremoofesaere.bo "It will bring Wisconsin closer to the metropolitan area south of the state boundary, for our benefit and for their benefit." In a second ribbon cutting, [ADVERTISEMENT I We Believe in EVANSWLLE • MILTON JANESVILLE E INTERSTATE EXPRESSWAY E WISCONSIN BELOIT ILLINOIS S. BELOIT ILLINOIS 10 MILES 1 TOLLWAY on the state line near Beloit, Director of Public Works SEA Rosenstone repeated the same sentiments in behalf of Gov. Stratton. He said the four lane divided highway, with continuous grade separation and with control of access from abutting property, will advance economic and social relations between the two states. Faster, Safer Travel Janesville, a manufacturing town of 25,000 on the Rock river, is 113 miles from the Loop via the Northwest tollway route and the new 18 miles of freeway. The distance is 106 miles via U. S. highway 14. Travel on the tollway, however, is quicker, pleasant and safer. Logging the two routes with Matthew C. Sielski, engineer for the Chicago Motor club, we saved 37 minutes on the tollway. The turnpike route, which cost $1.35 in tolls, took 2 hours and 13 minutes. The new improvement removed from the residential and business streets of Janesville, Beloit and South Beloit most of the thru travel following U. S. highway 51. East, West Germany Sign 1960 Trade Pact BERLIN, Nov. 24 [Reuters] -East and West German negotiators Tuesday signed a trade agreement worth $534,- 000,000 for 1960, West German officials announced in Berlin. Read On any ship in the vast

Article from 25 Nov 1959Chicago Tribune(Chicago, IL)

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