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Originally Posted by Don B.
As for Illinois, at least your freeways were largely paid for by the Feds. Our beltways are not. We had to pass a half cent sales tax to get our freeways. This is why Arizona beltways don't have interstate designations.
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Uh, Chicago is ringed by
tollroads, and even some of national interstate highway roads (e.g. I-90) are tolled in sections to finance construction and maintenance bonds.
I-90 is a tollroad up through Rockford nearly to Wisconsin, and I-88 is a tollroad extending most of the way towards Iowa. The key circumferential routes in the region, the Tri-state (I-294) and the North-South (I-355) are tollroads. Additionally, I-90 to the SE into Indiana (the Skyway) is a tollroad, owned by the City but leased out to a foreign consortium on a 99-year lease.