Touhy Avenue

Road in Illinois

Touhy Avenue
Patrick L. Touhy Memorial Avenue 7200 North
Part of	IL 72
Location	Chicago, Lincolnwood, Skokie, Niles, Park Ridge, Des Plaines, Rosemont, Elk Grove Village
West end	Tonne Road, Elk Grove Village
East end	1200 W (near Lake Michigan, Chicago)

Touhy Avenue is a major street throughout northern Chicago, Illinois as well as the north and northwestern suburbs of the city. It is named for Patrick L. Touhy, a subdivider who was also the son-in-law of Phillip Rogers, an early settler who helped develop Rogers Park.^[1]^[2] Points of interest along Touhy Avenue include Loyola Park, the Winston Towers,^[3] the Lincolnwood Town Center, Lincolnwood Produce & Grocery, Loeber Motors, Hebrew Theological College, Village Crossing Shopping Center, Pointe Plaza, the Shure Headquarters Building, the Leaning Tower YMCA, the Pickwick Theatre, the northern end of O'Hare International Airport, and the crash site of American Airlines Flight 191.^[4]

Major intersections

The entire route is in Cook County.

Location	mi^[5]^[6]	km	Destinations	Notes
Elk Grove Village	0.0	0.0	Tonne Road	Western terminus; roadway continues as Elk Grove Boulevard
	1.1	1.8	IL 83 (Busse Road)
	2.0	3.2	IL 72 west (Higgins Road)	Western end of IL 72 concurrency
Des Plaines	4.4	7.1	IL 72 east (Lee Street)	Eastern end of IL 72 concurrency
Rosemont–Des Plaines line	5.0	8.0	US 12 / US 45 (Mannheim Road)
Park Ridge	5.8	9.3	I-294 Toll south (Tri-State Tollway) – Indiana	Southbound I-294 entrance; northbound I-294 exit only
Chicago–Niles line	9.0	14.5	IL 43 (Harlem Avenue)
Chicago–Niles line	9.9	15.9	US 14 (Caldwell Avenue)
Skokie–Lincolnwood line	11.9	19.2	I-94 (Edens Expressway) – Chicago, Milwaukee
Lincolnwood	12.0	19.3	IL 50 (Cicero Avenue)
Lincolnwood	12.5	20.1	US 41 (Lincoln Avenue)
Chicago	16.4	26.4	Cul-de-sac near Lake Michigan	Eastern terminus
Concurrency terminus Incomplete access

^ Haymer, Don; McNamee, Tom (1988). Streetwise Chicago. Chicago: Loyola University Press. p. 125. ISBN 0-8294-0596-8.
^ Chicago Streets, Chicago History Museum.
^ Winston Towers, Emporis.com
^ Aircraft Accident Report: American Airlines, Inc. DC-10-10, N110AA, Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois, May 25, 1979 (PDF) (Report). National Transportation Safety Board. December 21, 1979. NTSB-AAR-79-17. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 22, 2019. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
^ "Touhy Avenue (Western Section)".
^ "Touhy Avenue Map (Eastern Section)".

Streets in Chicago

North–south

East of State Street (0 E/W)	Magnificent Mile, Michigan Avenue (100 E) Columbus Drive, Prairie Avenue (300 E) King Drive (400 East) Stony Island Avenue (1600 E) Torrence Avenue (2628 E)
West of State Street	Dearborn Street (36 W) Clark Street (100 W) LaSalle Street (140 W) Wells Street (Fifth Avenue) (200 W) Halsted Street (800 W) Sheffield Avenue (Morgan Street) (1000 W) Racine Avenue (1200 W) Loomis Street (Noble Street, Southport Avenue) (1400 W) Ashland Avenue (1600 W) Damen Avenue (2000 W) Western Avenue (2400 W) Kedzie Avenue (3200 W) Pulaski Road (4000 W) Cicero Avenue (Skokie Boulevard) (4800 W) Harlem Avenue (7200 W) 1st Avenue (Cumberland Avenue) (8400 W) Mannheim Road (La Grange Road) (10400 W)

East of State
Street (0 E/W)

West of
State Street

East–west

North of Madison Street (0 N/S)	Randolph Street (150 N) Lake Street (200 N) Hubbard Street (430 N) Grand Avenue (500 N) Ohio Street (600 N) Chicago Avenue (800 N) Oak Street (1000 N) Division Street (1200 N) North Avenue (1600 N) Armitage Avenue (2000 N) Fullerton Avenue (2400 N) Diversey Parkway (2800 N) Belmont Avenue (3200 N) Addison Street (3600 N) Irving Park Road (4000 N) Montrose Avenue (4400 N) Foster Avenue (5200 N) Devon Avenue (6400 N) Touhy Avenue (7200 N) Howard Street (7600 N) Dempster Street (8800 N) Central Street (10100 N)
South of Madison Street	Jackson Boulevard (300 S) Van Buren Street (400 S) Ida B. Wells Drive (Congress Parkway) (500 S) DeKoven Street (1120 S) Roosevelt Road (1200 S) Maxwell Street (1330 S) Cermak Road (22nd Street) (2200 S) Pershing Road (39th Street) (3900 S) Garfield Boulevard (55th Street) (5500 S) 75th Street (7500 S) 95th Street (9500 S)

North of Madison
Street (0 N/S)