Highway 41 Streetview trek -- scooting through Chicago's northern suburbia

 

If you want to stop and shop, here's a good place; Skokie Boulevard/ Highway 41 passes by the Westfield Old Orchard shopping complex. Maybe it used to be called a "mall", but I think that term is going out of favor.

Skokie Boulevard meets Old Orchard Road.

Now passing by the Edens Plaza (which probably offers more shopping), approaching a VII (not the number 7 in Roman numerals, this is a Very Important Intersection).

So, right here where the end of Skokie Boulevard crosses the Skokie River (I told you we'd encounter that again), Highway 41 jumps onto Interstate 94, and will share that dual designation for a few miles. This is one of the places where Highway 41 loses its "highway" character to the interstate system. If you were doing a Highway 41 end-to-end drive, it wouldn't be a problem, but if you were taking this trek the slower scenic way, like by bike or roller skating or (wow) hiking it, it would be hard if not impossible to stay on Highway 41 for awhile. So when this happens, I'll take occasional side trips on nearby side roads that might offer an alternate route that would be permissible to alternate forms of transportation.