Route 5 West



Morton Drive heads west from this traffic light with IL 5/92 to the John Deere Harvester Works plant in East Moline.
05/29/11
IL 5/92 west nip the northern corner of Carbon Cliff ahead of a bridge over the Iowa Interstate Railroad.
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IL 92 parts ways with IL 5 to accompany IL 84 north through the city of Silvis. IL 5 leads south between Silvis and Carbon Cliff and west to south Moline.
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Three successive signals operate along IL 5 (John Deere Expressway) west from Crosstown Avenue to 18th Avenue. Crosstown Avenue stems west from the east side frontage road (18th Street) through residential areas to become 30th Street at 19th Street (old IL 2).
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18th Avenue ties IL 5 with the south end of the 18th Street frontage road and a subdivision to the west.
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IL 5 reenters the village of Carbon Cliff at the intersection with Avenue of the Cities west and Colona Road east to IL 84. A controlled access arterial, Colona Road west through East Moline was renamed as Avenue of the Cities in 2002.
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Curving southwest across the bluff line north of the Rock River, IL 5 passes through south Silvis.
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John Deer Place follows the old alignment of IL 5 north to the Deere & Company World Headquarters campus.
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A four phase widening project along John Deere Road / Expressway expanded IL 5 to six overall lanes from a point just ahead of 70th Street to Interstate 74. Construction on the $50 million project started in April 2016 and ran through July 2019.1
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38th Avenue forms a north side frontage road to IL 5 along the bluff line through Moline. Big box retail appears to the south along the stretch west of 70th Street.
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The subsequent westbound signal is located at 60th Street. 60th Street spurs south to the Green Valley Sports Complex along the Rock River and north to Kennedy Drive through East Moline.
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53rd Street winds north IL 5 (John Deere Expressway) to the Greater Homewood neighborhood and south to adjacent businesses and 52nd Avenue.
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41st Street spurs south to an industrial park north of the Rock River. North from IL 5, 41st Street extends to the Greater Homewood neighborhood and the East End via 39th Street.
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A right in right out (RIRO) connection links IL 5 (John Deere Expressway) with 38th Street north and south. The former signalized intersection was removed due to increasing traffic due to retail development south of IL 5 along 41st Avenue Drive.
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Motorists headed south to River Valley Shopping Center along 38th Street or 41st Avenue Drive are directed onto parallel 38th Street west to the 41st Drive Connector. The Connector is an overpass linking 38th and 40th Avenues to the west.
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IL 5 (John Deere Road) passes under the 41st Drive Connector ahead of the cloverleaf interchange with Interstate 74/U.S. 6. IDOT plans call for the reconstruction of this exchange into a diverging diamond interchange (DDI).
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Interstate 74/U.S. 6 west travel north through Moline to the Iowa-Illinois Memorial Bridge across the Mississippi River. The two route separate at the Bettendorf and Davenport, Iowa city line.
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A loop ramp takes drivers south onto Interstate 74/U.S. 6 east. The two span the Rock River nearby and split at I-280 ahead of Quad City International Airport (MLI).
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West from I-74 and the 27th Street underpass, IL 5 (John Deere Road) next meets 16th Street by South Park Mall.
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A 1.1 mile uninterrupted stretch ensues west from 16th Street on IL 5 (John Deere Road). IL 5 historically turned north on 16th Street to 36th Avenue west.
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The 2007-completed Milan Beltway extends south across the Rock River into the village of Milan from IL 5 (John Deere Road).
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References:
- "John Deere Road construction to begin Monday night." Quad-City Times, April 4, 2016.
Photo Credits:
- ABRoads: 05/29/11
- Alex Nitzman, Bill Gatchel: 03/12/17
- Alex Nitzman: 03/31/16
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Page Updated Tuesday May 15, 2018.