This article is about the section of Illinois Route 72 in Chicago. For the entire route, see Illinois Route 72.
Touhy Avenue
Patrick L. Touhy Memorial Avenue 7200 North
Part of
IL 72
Location
Chicago, Lincolnwood, Skokie, Niles, Park Ridge, Des Plaines, Rosemont, Elk Grove Village
West end
Tonne Road, Elk Grove Village
East end
1200 W (near Lake Michigan, Chicago)
Touhy Avenue is a major street throughout northern Chicago, Illinois as well as the north and northwestern suburbs of the city. It is named for Patrick L. Touhy, a subdivider who was also the son-in-law of Phillip Rogers, an early settler who helped develop Rogers Park.[1][2] Points of interest along Touhy Avenue include Loyola Park, the Winston Towers,[3] the Lincolnwood Town Center, Lincolnwood Produce & Grocery, Loeber Motors, Hebrew Theological College, Village Crossing Shopping Center, Pointe Plaza, the Shure Headquarters Building, the Leaning Tower YMCA, the Pickwick Theatre, the northern end of O'Hare International Airport, and the crash site of American Airlines Flight 191.[4]
^Haymer, Don; McNamee, Tom (1988). Streetwise Chicago. Chicago: Loyola University Press. p. 125. ISBN 0-8294-0596-8.
^Chicago Streets, Chicago History Museum.
^Winston Towers, Emporis.com
^Aircraft Accident Report: American Airlines, Inc. DC-10-10, N110AA, Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois, May 25, 1979 (PDF) (Report). National Transportation Safety Board. December 21, 1979. NTSB-AAR-79-17. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 22, 2019. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
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