Editing Interstate 90 (section)

===Tollways and urban construction===
[[File:Chicago Circle Interchange 2018.jpg|thumb|right|Aerial view of the [[Circle Interchange]] in Chicago during reconstruction in 2018|alt=Aerial view of a major freeway interchange with several flyover ramps set within an urban neighborhood. Several ramps have exposed steel beams and other unfinished surfaces, showing signs of construction activity.]]

Major portions of I-90 in the Midwest and Northeastern states used existing toll roads built by state governments in the 1950s and 1960s. The [[Jane Addams Memorial Tollway|Northwest Tollway]], [[Chicago Skyway]], [[Indiana Toll Road]], [[Ohio Turnpike]], [[New York State Thruway]], and [[Massachusetts Turnpike]] all predate I-90 and were incorporated into the route.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ingraham |first=Joseph C. |date=May 24, 1959 |title=Boston to Chicago: New Section of Thruway Completes Express Route Between Cities |page=XX1 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1959/05/24/archives/boston-to-chicago-new-section-of-thruway-completes-express-route.html |work=The New York Times |accessdate=December 4, 2021 |archive-date=July 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722095852/https://www.nytimes.com/1959/05/24/archives/boston-to-chicago-new-section-of-thruway-completes-express-route.html |url-status=live }}</ref> This also meant that portions of the route did not adhere to [[Interstate Highway standards]], but they were either deemed adequate or rebuilt to conform by the 1980s.<ref>{{cite news |last=Gough |first=William |date=September 30, 1987 |title=Across the lake in concrete: A ride on new I-90 span bridges a gap in the imagination |page=E1 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref> The Pennsylvania section was planned in the early 1950s as the "Erie Extension" of the [[Pennsylvania Turnpike]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Snyder |first=Thomas P. |date=September 7, 1953 |title=Turnpike Link to Erie Assured, Survey of Best Route Begins |page=8 |work=[[Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89848370/turnpike-link-to-erie-assured-survey/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 1, 2021 |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009233351/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89848370/turnpike-link-to-erie-assured-survey/ |url-status=live }}</ref> but was instead completed as a toll-free road in October 1960 with federal funds.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 24, 1960 |title=Erie Throughway Is Scheduled To Be Officially Open Friday |page=3 |work=[[The Titusville Herald]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89848487/erie-throughway-is-scheduled-to-be/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 1, 2021 |archive-date=December 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211201084457/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89848487/erie-throughway-is-scheduled-to-be/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The completion of the section also allowed for full use of the New York State Thruway, which had been finished three years earlier but ended abruptly at the state line.<ref>{{cite news |last=White |first=William A. |date=October 28, 1960 |title='Dead-End' Thruway Is Opened At Erie |page=4 |work=[[The Pittsburgh Press]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89848466/dead-end-thruway-is-opened-at-erie/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 1, 2021 |archive-date=December 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211201084456/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89848466/dead-end-thruway-is-opened-at-erie/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

I-90 would use several expressways and tollways in the Chicago area, the earliest of which was the [[Kingery Expressway|Tri-State Expressway]] (now the Kingery Expressway), completed in 1950 and extended into Indiana the following year.<ref>{{cite news |last=Foust |first=Hal |date=October 23, 1950 |title=First Section of Expressway Will Open Nov. 1 |at=sec. 1, p. 14 |work=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90008367/first-section-of-expressway-will-open/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009233352/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90008367/first-section-of-expressway-will-open/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=December 14, 1951 |title=Schricker, Stevenson Open Super-Highway Link |page=1 |work=[[The Hammond Times]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90008620/schricker-stevenson-open-super-highway/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=December 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204085252/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90008620/schricker-stevenson-open-super-highway/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It was followed by the [[Eisenhower Expressway|Congress Expressway]] in the western suburbs, first opened in 1955, and the Northwest Tollway in 1958.<ref>{{cite news |last=Foust |first=Hal |date=December 10, 1955 |title=Show 4.5 Mile Congress St. Stretch to Be Opened to Traffic Tuesday |at=sec. 1, p. 3 |work=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89957155/show-45-mile-congress-st-stretch-to/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009233352/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89957155/show-45-mile-congress-st-stretch-to/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=August 21, 1958 |title=Traffic Rolls on 76 Miles of Tollways |at=sec. 1, p. 1 |work=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89957220/traffic-rolls-on-76-miles-of-tollways/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=December 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203112636/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89957220/traffic-rolls-on-76-miles-of-tollways/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The last section to be completed in Illinois was the toll-free [[Dan Ryan Expressway]], which opened on December 15, 1962, and was described as the "world's widest freeway" at the time.<ref>{{cite news |last=Foust |first=Hal |date=December 16, 1962 |title=Drivers Jam Expressway on First Day |at=sec. 1, p. 1 |work=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90283091/drivers-jam-expressway-on-first-day/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=December 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209105701/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90283091/drivers-jam-expressway-on-first-day/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Sullivan |first=Mort J. |date=December 13, 1962 |title=Dan Ryan Expressway Will Open Saturday |page=24 |work=[[Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, Illinois)|Chicago Daily Herald]] |agency=[[United Press International]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90283107/dan-ryan-expressway-will-open-saturday/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=December 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209105659/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90283107/dan-ryan-expressway-will-open-saturday/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1965, the designation for I-90 was switched with I-94 south of Chicago, which moved it to the tolled Chicago Skyway (completed in 1958);<ref>{{cite map |author=Rand McNally |year=1965 |title=1965 Illinois Official Highway Map |scale=1 inch = 12 miles |location=Springfield |publisher=[[Illinois Division of Highways]] |url=https://apps.dot.illinois.gov/HistoricalMapViewer/Files/1965F_Illinois_Statemap.pdf |at=[https://apps.dot.illinois.gov/HistoricalMapViewer/Files/1965B_Illinois_Statemap.pdf Chicago and Vicinity] inset |access-date=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107232920/https://apps.dot.illinois.gov/HistoricalMapViewer/Files/1965F_Illinois_Statemap.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Foust |first=Hal |date=April 17, 1958 |title=A Great Day For Chicago! Skyway Open |at=sec. 1, p. 1 |work=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89957115/a-great-day-for-chicago-skyway-open/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009233351/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89957115/a-great-day-for-chicago-skyway-open/ |url-status=live }}</ref> the change was requested by the Illinois and Indiana state governments to avoid confusion and provide a continuous toll connection to the Indiana Toll Road,<ref>{{cite web |date=February 27, 1964 |title=An Application From the State Highway Department of Indiana For the Relocation of Interstate Route I-90 |publisher=American Association of State Highway Officials |url=https://grmservices.grmims.com/vsearch/portal/public/na4/aashto/default |via=AASHTO Route Numbering Archive |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=October 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002030140/https://grmservices.grmims.com/vsearch/portal/public/na4/aashto/default |url-status=live }}</ref> which had been fully opened in 1956.<ref>{{cite news |date=November 16, 1956 |title=No Fanfare As Final Indiana Toll Link Opens; Semi-Trailer, State Police Car 1st Customers |page=1 |work=The Hammond Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90008489/no-fanfare-as-final-indiana-toll-link/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=December 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204085317/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90008489/no-fanfare-as-final-indiana-toll-link/ |url-status=live }}</ref> I-90 was moved onto the Kennedy Expressway in 1977 and its western route was replaced with [[Interstate 290 (Illinois)|I-290]] from Schaumburg to the [[Circle Interchange]] in Chicago.<ref>{{AASHTO minutes |year=1977S |page=5 |accessdate=December 9, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Illinois road map |year=1979 |inset=Chicago and Vicinity |accessdate=April 11, 2022}}</ref>

The other tolled sections of I-90 were completed in the 1950s by their respective state governments. The {{convert|241|mi|km|adj=mid}} Ohio Turnpike opened to traffic on October 1, 1955, three years after construction began.<ref>{{cite news |last=Cram |first=Winston |date=October 1, 1955 |title=Midnight Ceremony Opens Turnpike; Traffic Swarms On Ohio 'Main Street' |page=1 |work=[[Toledo Blade]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IvZOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jwAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6946%2C3406428 |via=[[Google News Archive]] |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=December 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209113044/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IvZOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jwAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6946,3406428 |url-status=live }}</ref> The first segment of the New York Thruway opened in June 1954 and was followed by extensions to Buffalo and the Albany area by the end of the year.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ingraham |first=Joseph C. |date=June 23, 1954 |title=Thruway to Open Officially Today |page=29 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1954/06/24/archives/thruway-to-open-officially-today-dewey-will-cut-tape-on-first-toll.html |work=The New York Times |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009233352/https://www.nytimes.com/1954/06/24/archives/thruway-to-open-officially-today-dewey-will-cut-tape-on-first-toll.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Ingraham |first=Joseph C. |date=October 24, 1954 |title=More Thruway: Newburgh-Utica Link Opens Tuesday, Bringing Pike Within 61 Miles of City |page=X19 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1954/10/24/archives/more-thruway-newburghutica-link-opens-tuesday-bringing-pike-within.html |work=The New York Times |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=December 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204103347/https://www.nytimes.com/1954/10/24/archives/more-thruway-newburghutica-link-opens-tuesday-bringing-pike-within.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It was extended to the Pennsylvania state line in 1957 and to the Massachusetts Turnpike via the Berkshire Connector in 1959.<ref>{{cite news |date=December 15, 1957 |title=The Thruway Becomes the Longest Toll Road |page=159 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/15/archives/the-thruway-becomes-the-longest-toll-road-on-schedule.html |work=The New York Times |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009233352/https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/15/archives/the-thruway-becomes-the-longest-toll-road-on-schedule.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Weaver |first=Warren Jr. |date=May 27, 1959 |title=Thruway Opened to New England |page=20 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1959/05/27/archives/thruway-opened-to-new-england-governor-rides-half-moon-in-symbolic.html |work=The New York Times |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=December 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204103847/https://www.nytimes.com/1959/05/27/archives/thruway-opened-to-new-england-governor-rides-half-moon-in-symbolic.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The Berkshire section linked with the Massachusetts Turnpike, which had opened in 1957 from the state line to Newton, a distance of {{convert|123|mi|km}}.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ingraham |first=Joseph C. |date=May 12, 1957 |title=Bay State's Turnpike Link |page=XX3 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/05/12/archives/bay-states-turnpike-link-opening-of-massachusetts-highway-this-week.html |work=The New York Times |accessdate=December 4, 2021 |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009233352/https://www.nytimes.com/1957/05/12/archives/bay-states-turnpike-link-opening-of-massachusetts-highway-this-week.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The turnpike was extended into Boston in two stages: first by {{convert|9|mi|km}} from Newton to [[Allston, Boston|Allston]] in September 1964;<ref>{{cite news |last=Plotkin |first=A. S. |date=September 4, 1964 |title=Hot Debate Preceded Building of Toll Link |page=12 |work=The Boston Globe |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90009720/hot-debate-preceded-building-of-toll/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 4, 2021 |archive-date=December 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204110924/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90009720/hot-debate-preceded-building-of-toll/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and finally with an extension to I-93 near [[South Station (Boston)|South Station]] in Downtown Boston that opened on February 18, 1965.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hanron |first=Robert B. |date=February 19, 1965 |title=East-West Gateway Swings Open; 60 M.P.H. Through Boston... |page=1 |work=The Boston Globe |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90009765/east-west-gateway-swings-open/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 4, 2021 |archive-date=December 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204110924/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90009765/east-west-gateway-swings-open/ |url-status=live }}</ref>