To develop and standardize articles on Illinois State Routes, according to the recommended article structure, below.
Highways to include
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Any and all ordinary Interstate Highways, whether two or three digits or entirely in the state of Illinois, are covered under WikiProject U.S. Interstate Highways. Please use the standards on those pages.
Featured articles
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Featured pictures
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Good articles
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Main page featured articles
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Did you know? articles
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Picture of the day pictures
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Former good articles
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- Illinois Highways Page by Rich Carlson, excellent resource on Illinois highway history.
- Highways of the State of Illinois by Bill Burmaster, has a lot of highway signs and other photos for most routes, as well as brief descriptions of each route.
- ArcExplorer — GIS data viewer. Use with...
- GIS data, has a lot of fields, including precise mileage data, as reflected in WikiProject_U.S._Roads/Lengths/Illinois.
- Illinois Highway Ends by Charles Sarjeant, photographs of ends, multiplexes and signs - maps - descriptions of current routes and history - links relevant to Illinois highways.
- 1970 map of Cook County
- Link to maps dating back to 1917
- Illinois county, city and township highway maps
- /Lengths
- All-time list
- /External correspondence – track communications with external entities like usegroups, Yahoo! groups and the Illinois Department of Transportation.
- /Progress Reports – blog-like progress reports.
See WP:USRD/STDS for the article standards and structure.
Categories
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There are a few guidelines for which categories to put these articles in, but overcategorization is a definite concern. Place Illinois State Route articles in the following categories:
- 1di and 2di highways: [[Category:State highways in Illinois|0xx]] where xx is the number of the route
- 3di highways: [[Category:State highways in Illinois|y|xx]] where yxx is the number of the route
- The category for each county the route runs through, i.e. Category:Tazewell County, Illinois.
- Avoid categories for each individual city on the route. Categories for major cities are acceptable.
- Categories for notable highways but not Illinois state routes
Use these for things like Lincoln Highway or Kingery Expressway, not Illinois Route 1.