Highway Feature of the Week: I-55 and Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL

(This is one of a weekly series of posts entitled “Highway Feature of the Week”. The complete collection of Highway Features of the Week is available on a single page, or via a special RSS feed.)

This week brings us to Chicago:

This is the northern terminus of the Stevenson Expressway, I-55, at US 41 (Lake Shore Drive) a bit south of downtown Chicago.

Most of the ends of interstates I’ve encountered in the US tend to be rather anticlimactic.  However, at least I-55’s north end benefits from the distinction of ending on the shore of Lake Michigan, at a road that is remarkable in its own right (Lake Shore Drive).

Oh, and that would be Chicago’s McCormick Center at the left-hand side of the image, in case you were wondering.