US 24 across IN and IL?
We are planning our trip back from Elkart, IN later this summer and we are looking at US 24 from Logansport, IN across to I55 in Illinois. We would take I55 south to US 136 and then pick up US 24 on ...
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I've been using the route regularly (annually or more often) for the past 12 years, between I-55 or I-57 and Logansport, sometimes all the way to Fort Wayne.
Hitch I have encountered the past two years has been long detours around long short sections where they've been working on 24. First was just west of US-41 in Kentland, detour was taking me so far south on 41 that I just started using Indiana-26 and Illinois-9 as a alternate route to I-57.
Last summer there was a long detour around something they were doing between Reynolds and Monticello, then the detour had a detour. So next couple times through I just took US-421 north and connected with I-94 in Michigan City.
I once split the difference between the two Interstates, took Illinois 54 from US-24 to Springfield. That was straight, light traffic, but tended to be rough pavement and slow going with lots of small towns, seems to parallel an old whistle-stop line that produced market towns every 10-15 miles.
Can't say anything about the US-136 plan, haven't tried it. I took US-24 all the way from Logansport to Quincy once, won't do that again, there was too much rough road. I usually take I-57 and I-72 through Illinois to Hannibal, that gets close to Quincy. I'll take I-55 (which tends to be much busier with more bad driving) only if I know there is extensive construction on I-57.
Hitch I have encountered the past two years has been long detours around long short sections where they've been working on 24. First was just west of US-41 in Kentland, detour was taking me so far south on 41 that I just started using Indiana-26 and Illinois-9 as a alternate route to I-57.
Last summer there was a long detour around something they were doing between Reynolds and Monticello, then the detour had a detour. So next couple times through I just took US-421 north and connected with I-94 in Michigan City.
I once split the difference between the two Interstates, took Illinois 54 from US-24 to Springfield. That was straight, light traffic, but tended to be rough pavement and slow going with lots of small towns, seems to parallel an old whistle-stop line that produced market towns every 10-15 miles.
Can't say anything about the US-136 plan, haven't tried it. I took US-24 all the way from Logansport to Quincy once, won't do that again, there was too much rough road. I usually take I-57 and I-72 through Illinois to Hannibal, that gets close to Quincy. I'll take I-55 (which tends to be much busier with more bad driving) only if I know there is extensive construction on I-57.
