Interstate 94 (I-94) is an east–west
Interstate Highway
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connecting the
Great Lakes
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and northern
Great Plains regions of the
United States
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. Its western terminus is just east of
Billings, Montana
Billings is the largest city in the U.S. state of Montana, with a population of 117,116 as of the 2020 census. Located in the south-central portion of the state, it is the seat of Yellowstone County and the principal city of the Billings Metr ...
, at a junction with
I-90
Interstate 90 (I-90) is an east–west transcontinental freeway and the longest Interstate Highway in the United States at . It begins in Seattle, Washington, and travels through the Pacific Northwest, Mountain West, Great Plains, Midwest, ...
; its eastern terminus is in
Port Huron, Michigan
Port Huron is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of St. Clair County. The population was 30,184 at the 2010 census. The city is adjacent to Port Huron Township but is administered separately.
Located along the St. Clair ...
, where it meets with
I-69 and crosses the
Blue Water Bridge
The Blue Water Bridge is a twin-span international bridge across the St. Clair River that links Port Huron, Michigan, United States, and Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. The Blue Water Bridge connects Highway 402 in Ontario with both Interstate 6 ...
into
Sarnia, Ontario
Sarnia is a city in Lambton County, Ontario, Canada. It had a Canada 2021 Census, 2021 population of 72,047, and is the largest city on Lake Huron. Sarnia is located on the eastern bank of the junction between the Upper and Lower Great Lakes w ...
, Canada, where the route becomes
Ontario Highway 402
King's Highway 402, commonly referred to as Highway 402 and historically as the Blue Water Bridge Approach, is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario that connects the Blue Water Bridge international crossing near Sarnia to ...
. It thus lies along the primary overland route from
Seattle
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(via I-90) to
Toronto
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(via
Ontario Highway 401
King's Highway 401, commonly referred to as Highway 401 and also known by its official name as the Macdonald–Cartier Freeway or colloquially referred to as the four-oh-one,
is a Controlled-access highway, controlled-access 400-series high ...
) and is the only east–west Interstate Highway to have a direct connection to Canada.
I-94 intersects with I-90 several times: at its western terminus;
Tomah to
Madison in Wisconsin; in
Chicago, Illinois
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Lake Station, Indiana
Lake Station is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States. The population was 12,572 at the 2010 census.
History
Initially, the site of modern Lake Station was the starting point of two Amerind trails leading to Fort Dearborn.Workers of ...
. Major cities that I-94 connects to are Billings,
Bismarck,
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* ''Fargo'' (TV series), an American black comedy–crime drama anthology television series
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,
Minneapolis–Saint Paul
Minneapolis–Saint Paul is a metropolitan area in the Upper Midwestern United States centered around the confluence of the Mississippi, Minnesota and St. Croix rivers in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is commonly known as the Twin Citi ...
,
Madison,
Milwaukee
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, Chicago, and
Detroit
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.
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Montana

I-94 begins at
Billings and travels northeastward toward
Glendive before exiting the state to the east. I-94 links seven counties, which are
Yellowstone,
Treasure
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,
Rosebud,
Custer,
Prairie
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,
Dawson, and
Wibaux counties and passes near or through
Miles City and Glendive while connecting with I-90 in Billings. The highway is notable for following the
Yellowstone River
The Yellowstone River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately long, in the Western United States. Considered the principal tributary of upper Missouri, via its own tributaries it drains an area with headwaters across the mountains a ...
from Billings through Glendive. Beyond the western terminus of I-94, I-90 connects westbound I-94 travelers to points west such as
Butte
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;
Missoula;
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho;
Spokane, Washington
Spokane ( ) is the largest city and county seat of Spokane County, Washington, United States. It is in eastern Washington, along the Spokane River, adjacent to the Selkirk Mountains, and west of the Rocky Mountain foothills, south of the ...
; and
Seattle, Washington
Seattle ( ) is a port, seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the county seat, seat of King County, Washington, King County, Washington (state), Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in bo ...
.
North Dakota

The route enters at
Beach
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and passes through the
Badlands
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near
Medora (near the
Theodore Roosevelt National Park South Unit). A public rest area about east of Medora provides an awe-inspiring view, especially at sunset, and an opportunity to hike through some of the scenery on the Painted Canyon Trail. Further east, I-94 provides access to the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, then passes through the cities of
Dickinson,
Mandan
The Mandan are a Native American tribe of the Great Plains who have lived for centuries primarily in what is now North Dakota. They are enrolled in the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation. About half of the Mandan still re ...
,
Bismarck,
Jamestown, and
Valley City on the way to
West Fargo
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and
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* Fargo, North Dakota, United States
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* ''Fargo'' (TV series), an American black comedy–crime drama anthology television series
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Othe ...
, where it leaves the state and crosses into Minnesota. Throughout the state, the route generally travels relatively straight east and west following both the
railroad route and the former route of
US Route 10 (US 10, called "The Old Red Trail") where its western terminus is at exit 343 in West Fargo.
The highway intersects with the
Enchanted Highway east of Dickinson at exit 72. At
New Salem, it passes
Salem Sue
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, a sculpture of a
Holstein cow
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and is clearly visible from I-94 on the south side of the road. A drive up the road to Sue will take visitors to a vantage point where they can see a panoramic landscape for many miles. Between Mandan and Bismarck, I-94 crosses the Missouri River with a view of the
Northern Pacific/
BNSF
BNSF Railway is one of the largest freight railroads in North America. One of seven North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 35,000 employees, of track in 28 states, and nearly 8,000 locomotives. It has three transcontinental routes tha ...
Railway Bridge on the south side of the road. At
Steele
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* Steele, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
* Steele, Missouri, a city
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, it passes the world's largest sculpture of a
sandhill crane (named Sandy), which is tall and visible from I-94 on the south side of the road, just to the east of exit 200. At
Jamestown, it passes the world's largest sculpture of the
buffalo (actually bison) named "Dakota Thunder", which is tall and is visible from I-94 on the north side of the road.
US 52 is concurrent with I-94 from Jamestown to the Minnesota state line. approximately milemarker 275 on the westbound lanes between Jamestown and Valley City, there is a small green sign marking the
Laurentian Divide, which marks a continental divide where rivers south of the divide drain into the
Gulf of Mexico
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, while the rivers north flow into the
Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans. It spans an area of approximately and is known as the coldest of all the oceans. The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, ...
. The highway reaches Fargo, before the
Red River.
Minnesota

Leaving Fargo and entering
Moorhead, Minnesota, I-94/US 52 crosses the Red River. East of
Moorhead Municipal Airport
Moorhead Municipal Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located in Moorhead, a city in Clay County, Minnesota. It has one runway and, as of 2010, it served general aviation only.
Facilities and aircraft
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, the Interstate travels in a northwest–southeast trajectory past
Fergus Falls,
Alexandria
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, and
St. Cloud on the way to the
Twin Cities
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and eastward out of the state.
The road crosses the
Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system in North America, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it ...
in
Minneapolis
Minneapolis () is the largest city in Minnesota, United States, and the county seat of Hennepin County. The city is abundant in water, with list of lakes in Minneapolis, thirteen lakes, wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks and waterfalls. ...
between the
Prospect Park and
Seward neighborhoods. As it crosses over the only true gorge along the Mississippi's entire length, where steep bluffs extend to the waterline. The highway joins Minneapolis and
Saint Paul
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together where it meets
Minnesota State Highway 280 (MN 280).
US 52 leaves I-94 after running concurrently with I-94 from the North Dakota state line and heads southbound toward
Rochester
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Canada
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. In the Twin Cities, the routing of the highway is politically charged, primarily through many historic working-class and
Black neighborhood
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s.
In Saint Paul, the routing of I-94 is set through and displaces the historic
Rondo Neighborhood
St. Paul's Rondo Neighborhood was the center of the black community in the Minneapolis–St. Paul region for much of the 20th century. The intact Rondo neighborhood was socially and economically active, as well as self-supportive. The core of R ...
, which prior to the highway construction was the largest Black community in Saint Paul.
East of Saint Paul, I-94 leaves Minnesota between
Lakeland, Minnesota, and
Hudson, Wisconsin, while crossing the
St. Croix River.
Wisconsin

I-94 enters
Wisconsin
Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
east of the Twin Cities at
Hudson. It traverses the hilly terrain of northwest Wisconsin, crossing the
Red Cedar River near
Menomonie. East of Menomonie, I-94 junctions with
WIS 29, a major East–West expressway connecting I-94 with
Wausau, and
Green Bay. It then passes
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before turning southeastward and joining with
I-90
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in
Tomah. Southeast of Tomah, the highway passes the major tourist area of
Wisconsin Dells. Here, vacationers can find a multitude of water parks, camping, amusement parks, zoos, river excursions, as well as lodging and shopping. Further southeast, I-94 joins up with
I-39
Interstate 39 (I-39) is a highway in the Midwestern United States. I-39 runs from Normal, Illinois, at I-55 to State Trunk Highway 29 (WIS 29) in the town of Rib Mountain, Wisconsin, which is approximately south of Wausau. ...
in
Portage at the base of
Cascade Mountain, a popular ski area. Just south of Cascade Mountain, I-94 crosses over the
Wisconsin River
The Wisconsin River is a tributary of the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. At approximately 430 miles (692 km) long, it is the state's longest river. The river's name, first recorded in 1673 by Jacques Marquette as "Meskou ...
. I-94 leaves I-90 and I-39 east of the state capitol of
Madison and resumes its easterly path toward
Milwaukee
Milwaukee ( ), officially the City of Milwaukee, is both the most populous and most densely populated city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, Milwaukee County. With a population of 577,222 at th ...
. I-94 weaves its way into
Downtown Milwaukee before turning south and heading to
Chicago
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, entering
Illinois
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at
Pleasant Prairie.
Illinois
In the state of
Illinois
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, I-94 runs south from Wisconsin to Indiana via downtown
Chicago
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. It is tolled on the Tri-State Tollway to the I-94/I-294 split; it then runs east to the Edens Expressway, where it soon joins again with I-90 on the Kennedy Expressway and turns south through the city of Chicago. I-90 leaves south of downtown Chicago to the Chicago Skyway. At
I-80, I-94 runs east to Indiana on the
Kingery Expressway
The Robert Kingery Expressway, formerly called the Tri-State Highway, is a three-mile-long (5 km), eight-lane freeway in northeastern Illinois. It carries Interstate 80 (I-80) and I-94 from the Illinois–Indiana border at the Borman Expressway ...
.
Indiana

In the state of
Indiana
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, I-94 runs east from Illinois concurrently with I-80. It crosses I-90 (
Indiana Toll Road), where I-80 joins I-90 east toward
Ohio
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. I-94 continues northeasterly, paralleling the
Lake Michigan
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shoreline into Michigan. The speed limit used to continue east of exit 26; now it ends east of I-80/I-90, where the speed limit goes up to on eastbound I-94. Between milemarkers 0.0 and 15.5, the highway is also posted along with I-80. Between milemarkers 15.6 and 19.0, I-94 is posted alone.
Michigan

I-94 runs north along
Lake Michigan
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to
St. Joseph and
Benton Harbor before heading east toward
Detroit
Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at ...
. It turns northeast to
Port Huron
Port Huron is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of St. Clair County. The population was 30,184 at the 2010 census. The city is adjacent to Port Huron Township but is administered separately.
Located along the St. Clair ...
where it meets
I-69 and ends at the
Blue Water Bridge
The Blue Water Bridge is a twin-span international bridge across the St. Clair River that links Port Huron, Michigan, United States, and Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. The Blue Water Bridge connects Highway 402 in Ontario with both Interstate 6 ...
, where it becomes
Ontario Highway 402
King's Highway 402, commonly referred to as Highway 402 and historically as the Blue Water Bridge Approach, is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario that connects the Blue Water Bridge international crossing near Sarnia to ...
in
Point Edward, Ontario.
History
The first section of I-94 completed with Interstate funds (under the
Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956) was a section between Jamestown and Valley City, North Dakota, in 1958.
North of
Chicago
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, I-94 has been widened from six to eight lanes from
Illinois Route 22 (IL 22, Half Day Road) to just south of the Wisconsin state line at
IL 173 and 95th Street to 159th Street. Construction began in 2009 to completely rebuild I-94, including expansion to eight lanes, from the Wisconsin–Illinois border through the Mitchell Interchange in Milwaukee. This construction is expected to be completed in 2021.
In 2005, the I-94 bridge over the Crow River near
St. Michael, Minnesota
St. Michael is a city in eastern Wright County, northwest of the Minneapolis-St Paul "Twin Cities" Metropolitan Area. The population was 18,235 at the 2020 census.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total a ...
, about northwest of
Minneapolis
Minneapolis () is the largest city in Minnesota, United States, and the county seat of Hennepin County. The city is abundant in water, with list of lakes in Minneapolis, thirteen lakes, wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks and waterfalls. ...
, was rebuilt. In 2006, a project to widen I-94 east of
Downtown Saint Paul between
MN 120 and McKnight Road from four to six lanes was completed. The interchange at 95th Avenue North in
Maple Grove, Minnesota, was rebuilt with a new, wider bridge that replaced the two-lane bridge there, which was demolished in July 2006.
The expanded
Marquette Interchange in
Downtown Milwaukee was completed in August 2008 at a cost of $810 million (equivalent to $ in ).
In Detroit, I-94 was routed over the existing Edsel Ford Freeway and remained signed as such until the late 1980s when Michigan deemphasized proper names on Interstate guide signs. Its interchange with the
Lodge Freeway
M-10 is a state trunkline highway in the Metro Detroit area of Michigan in the United States. Nominally labeled north-south, the route follows a northwest-southeast alignment. The southernmost portion follows Jefferson Avenue in downtown De ...
, built in 1953, is significant as the first full-speed freeway-to-freeway interchange built in the US.
From September 2007 to October 2008, the
Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) added a temporary extra lane to I-94 between northbound
I-35W and
Minnesota State Highway 280 in the Twin Cities to help relieve traffic congestion caused by the collapse of the
I-35W Mississippi River bridge. As a result, this portion of I-94 was not up to
Interstate Highway standards during this time period.
Major intersections
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Billings
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Bismarck (unsigned, carried by the
Bismarck Expressway
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)
: in
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Maple Grove; access to the west end of the
Twin Cities
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beltway
: in
Minneapolis
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; the spur route from Minneapolis to
Minnetonka
: in
Minneapolis
Minneapolis () is the largest city in Minnesota, United States, and the county seat of Hennepin County. The city is abundant in water, with list of lakes in Minneapolis, thirteen lakes, wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks and waterfalls. ...
; concurrent for less than one mile (1.6 km)
: in
St. Paul; concurrent for less than half a mile (0.8 km)
: in
Oakdale-
Woodbury; the east end of the Twin Cities beltway
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: in
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: in
Tomah; concurrent until
Madison
: at
Portage; concurrent until Madison
: in
West Allis
West Allis is a city in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. A suburb of Milwaukee, it is part of the Milwaukee metropolitan area. The population was 60,325 at the 2020 census.
History
The name West Allis derives from Edward P. Allis, ...
: in
Milwaukee
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: in Milwaukee
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Zion
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: in
Deerfield
: in
Chicago
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; concurrent through to the junction with the Chicago Skyway
: in Chicago
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: in Chicago
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South Holland
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; concurrent until
Lake Station, Indiana
Lake Station is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States. The population was 12,572 at the 2010 census.
History
Initially, the site of modern Lake Station was the starting point of two Amerind trails leading to Fort Dearborn.Workers of ...
;Indiana
: in
Gary
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: in Lake Station
;Michigan
: near
Benton Harbor
: in
Kalamazoo
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: in
Battle Creek
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: in
Marshall
: in
Romulus
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: in
Detroit
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: in Detroit
: in
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Australia
*Roseville, New South Wales
Canada
* Roseville, Ontario
Malta
* RoseVille (aka Villa Roseville), a house in Attard, Malta
South Africa
*Roseville, Pretoria, a suburb
United Kingdom
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Port Huron
Port Huron is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of St. Clair County. The population was 30,184 at the 2010 census. The city is adjacent to Port Huron Township but is administered separately.
Located along the St. Clair ...
; concurrent to the border
: at
Canadian border
Spur routes
*
Bismarck, North Dakota:
I-194 (unsigned)
*
Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota:
I-394,
I-494,
I-694
*
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee ( ), officially the City of Milwaukee, is both the most populous and most densely populated city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Milwaukee County. With a population of 577,222 at the 2020 census, Milwaukee i ...
:
I-794
Interstate 794 (I-794; also known as East–West Freeway, Lake Parkway, and Lake Freeway) is a auxiliary Interstate Highway in Milwaukee County in the US state of Wisconsin. It is one of two auxiliary Interstates in the Milwaukee metropoli ...
(Lake Freeway),
I-894
Interstate 894 (I-894) is a auxiliary Interstate Highway in Milwaukee County in the US state of Wisconsin. The route serves as a bypass of downtown Milwaukee, connecting with I-94 at the Zoo Interchange west of downtown and the Mitchell ...
*
Chicago, Illinois
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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:
I-294 (
Tri-State Tollway)
*
Battle Creek, Michigan:
I-194
References
External links
Interstate 94at Michigan Highways
at Wisconsin Highways
Illinois Highway Ends: I-94Indiana Highway Ends: I-94''The Old Red Trail''Documentary about the history of I-94 in North Dakota produced by
Prairie Public Television
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