Editing DuPage County, Illinois (section)

==Transportation==
{{main list|List of county roads in DuPage County, Illinois}}

===Airports===
A small portion of [[O'Hare International Airport]] is located inside the county, as are several small airports, including [[DuPage Airport]]. 

===Public transit===
==== Regional Transit Authority ====
DuPage is served by a number of modes of public transit overseen by the [[Regional Transportation Authority (Illinois)|Regional Transportation Authority]]. [[Pace (transit)|Pace]] operates the bus system within the county. DuPage County is also well-covered by [[Metra]], the Chicago-area commuter rail system. Three of Metra's eleven lines pass through the county: [[Milwaukee District West Line]], [[Union Pacific West Line]], and [[BNSF Line]]. Nineteen Metra stations are located within DuPage County. 

Extending the [[O'Hare, Chicago|O'Hare]] terminus of the [[Chicago "L"]]'s [[Blue Line (CTA)| Blue Line]] westward to [[Schaumburg, Illinois|Schaumburg]] has been a topic of discussion for years.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nitkin |first1=Alex |title=The CTA Has Interesting Ideas For a Blue Line Extension Sitting on the Shelf |url=https://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/march-2018/the-cta-has-interesting-ideas-for-a-blue-line-extension-sitting-on-the-shelf/ |access-date=1 April 2025 |publisher=Chicago Magazine |date=March 23, 2018}}</ref> After planning for the [[Suburban Transit Access Route (Metra)|Metra STAR Line]] nixed the initial route which went exclusively through Cook County, an option that would include two stations in DuPage County ([[Bensenville, Illinois|Bensenville]]/ [[Wood Dale, Illinois| Wood Dale]], as well as [[Itasca, Illinois|Itasca]]) became the preferred alternative.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nitkin |first1=Alex |title=The CTA Has Interesting Ideas For a Blue Line Extension Sitting on the Shelf |url=https://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/march-2018/the-cta-has-interesting-ideas-for-a-blue-line-extension-sitting-on-the-shelf/ |access-date=1 April 2025 |publisher=Chicago Magazine |date=March 23, 2018}}</ref> After resistance from [[Chicago Mayor]] [[Richard M. Daley]], this plan failed to come to fruition.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nitkin |first1=Alex |title=The CTA Has Interesting Ideas For a Blue Line Extension Sitting on the Shelf |url=https://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/march-2018/the-cta-has-interesting-ideas-for-a-blue-line-extension-sitting-on-the-shelf/ |access-date=1 April 2025 |publisher=Chicago Magazine |date=March 23, 2018}}</ref>

In 2008, the [[Regional Transportation Authority (Illinois)|Regional Transit Authority]] included an {{convert|13.3|mi|km|adj=on}} extension of a different branch of the Blue Line, from its current western terminus at Forest Park to [[Yorktown Center]] in [[Lombard, Illinois]]. Several feeder bus services would also be implemented in this plan. The prospect of this extension was also listed in the Chicago region's 2030 master plan.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-corridor_22feb22,0,3797698.story | title=Cook-DuPage corridor project would extend Blue Line |newspaper=Chicago Tribune| access-date=2008-03-04 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080226021531/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-corridor_22feb22,0,3797698.story | archive-date=2008-02-26 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

====Amtrak====
[[Amtrak]] also serves the county at [[Naperville station]]. The [[Illinois Zephyr]] and [[Carl Sandburg (train)|Carl Sandburg]] run from Chicago to [[Quincy, Illinois|Quincy]], the [[Southwest Chief]] from Chicago to Los Angeles, and the [[California Zephyr]] runs from Chicago to [[Emeryville, California]].

===Major highways===
DuPage County is served by five [[Interstate Highways]], three [[US Highways]], and nine [[Illinois Routes]].

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* {{jct|state=IL|I|55}}
* {{jct|state=IL|I|88}}
* {{jct|state=IL|I|290}}
* {{jct|state=IL|I|294}}
* {{jct|state=IL|I|355}}
* {{jct|state=IL|US|20}}
* {{jct|state=IL|US|34}}
* {{jct|state=IL|IL|19}}
* {{jct|state=IL|IL|38}}
* {{jct|state=IL|IL|53}}
* {{jct|state=IL|IL|56}}
* {{jct|state=IL|IL|59}}
* {{jct|state=IL|IL|64}}
* {{jct|state=IL|IL|83}}
* {{jct|state=IL|IL|110}}
* {{jct|state=IL|IL|390}}
* [[File:DuPage County 11.svg|25px]] [[Army Trail Road]]
* [[File:DuPage County 29.svg|25px]] [[Stearns Road (Chicago)|Stearns Road]]
* [[File:DuPage_County_33.svg|25px]] 75th Street
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North–south roads (from west to east) include: IL 59 (Neltnor Boulevard), IL 53, I-355 (Veterans Memorial Tollway) and IL 83 (Kingery Highway). East–west roads (from south to north) include: I-55 (Stevenson Expressway) I-88 (Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway), US 34 (Ogden Avenue), IL 56 (Butterfield Road), IL 38 (Roosevelt Road), IL 64 (North Avenue), [[Army Trail Road]], US 20 (Lake Street), IL 19 (Irving Park Road) and IL 390 (Elgin–O'Hare Expressway), which begins at the Thorndale Avenue exit on [[Interstate 290 (Illinois)|I-290]] and ends on Lake Street, in Hanover Park. [[Interstate 294|I-294]] partially enters DuPage County on its eastern border between [[Westchester, Illinois|Westchester]], in Cook County, and [[Oak Brook, Illinois|Oak Brook]], in DuPage County. Only the southbound lanes enter the county though. Historic [[U.S. Route 66 in Illinois|U.S. Route 66]] crosses through the southeast portion of the county near Darien and Willowbrook.<ref>{{cite web |title=Route 66 Road Trip in DuPage County, Illinois |url=https://www.visittheusa.com/experience/combining-culture-and-fun-route-66-dupage-county |publisher=Brand USA |access-date=January 19, 2022}}</ref>

===Shared-use trails===
*[[Illinois Prairie Path]]
*[[Grand Illinois Trail]]
*[[Great Western Trail (Illinois)|Great Western Trail]]
*[[Salt Creek Trail]]