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is to the southwest of the interchange. When the campus opened in 1965, it was called the
University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, making it the only university in the world known to be named after a freeway interchange.
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Eisenhower Expressway beyond its terminus several blocks east of the interchange) and extends roughly from
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eastbound Ida B. Wells was closed from the spring of 2014 to
September 7, 2019. On the same day, the second lane of the flyover ramp, as well as the Morgan Street off-ramp, opened.
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pass directly underneath the center of the interchange, running in an east–west direction, as they transition from surface operation in the median of the
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