Illinois/Reference information

Statewide

Maps

• General Highway Maps for cities and counties from IDOT
• Illinois Virtual Tollway
• USGS National Map Viewer (sometimes quite out of date)
• 2011 Boundary and Annexation Survey Maps from US Census Bureau
• Functional Classification Maps by County
• Functional Classification for entire State

Other Resources

• Google Map Tools (useful for drawing arbitrary polygons to use in AM requests)

Chicagoland

• Cook County
  • Chicago
  • GIS Consortium Covering Glenview, Winnetka, Glencoe, Northbrook, Wheeling, Morton Grove, Skokie, Des Plaines, Park Ridge, Lincolnwood, Elk Grove Village, Norridge, Riverside, Tinley Park
  • Schaumburg
  • Arlington Heights
• DuPage County
  • GIS Consortium Covering Glen Ellyn, Oak Brook, Woodridge
• Kane County
• Kendall County
• Lake County
  • GIS Consortium Covering Mundelein, Lake Forest, Lincolnshire, Buffalo Grove, Deerfield, Highland Park
• McHenry County
• Will County
• Older Kennedy Revesible times
• Newer Kennedy Revesible times with Friday Change

Downstate Counties

Note: links are GIS resources unless otherwise indicated - Sites marked with a $ have fee based access.

• Adams
• [Alexander]
• [Bond]
• Boone
• [Brown]
• [Bureau]
• [Calhoun]
• [Carroll]
• Cass
• Champaign
  • City of Champaign
• Christian
• Clark
• Clay
• [Clinton]
• Coles
• [Crawford]
• [Cumberland]
• [De Witt]
• DeKalb
• Douglas
• [Edgar]
• [Edwards]
• Effingham
• [Fayette]
• Ford
• Franklin$
• [Fulton]
• [Gallatin]
• [Greene]
• Grundy
• [Hamilton]
• [Hancock]
• [Hardin]
• [Henderson]
• [Henry]
• [Iroquois]
• Jackson
• [Jasper]
• Jefferson
• Jersey
• Jo Daviess
• [Johnson]
• Kankakee
• Knox
• [LaSalle]
• Lawrence
• Lee
• Livingston $
• Logan
• Macon
• Macoupin
• Madison
• Marion
• [Marshall]
• Mason
• Massac
• McDonough
• McLean
• [Menard]
• [Mercer]
• Monroe
• [Montgomery]
• Morgan 1 | Morgan 2
• [Moultrie]
• Ogle
• Peoria
• [Perry]
• [Piatt]
• [Pike]
• [Pope]
• [Pulaski]
• Putnam
• [Randolph]
• [Richland]
• Rock Island
• [Saline]
• Sangamon
• Schuyler
• [Scott]
• Shelby
• St. Clair
• [Stark]
• Stephenson (use Winnebago County's GIS & pan left)
• Tazewell
  • City of Pekin
• [Union]
• Vermilion
• [Wabash]
• [Warren]
• [Washington]
• [Wayne]
• [White]
• Whiteside $
• Williamson
• Winnebago
• Woodford

Road Categorization

See Road names/USA, Road types/USA and Illinois/Roads by type (coming soon)

Road Construction

• Statewide: IDOT Illinois Tollway
• IDOT District 1 (Cook-DuPage-Kane-Lake-McHenry-Will): Road Closure News releases

See Illinois/Construction for a list of LONG TERM Road Closures & Changes to Traffic Flow that impact the Waze Map. (coming soon)

Speed / Red Light Cameras

Red light cameras are legal.

Mobile speed cameras may be in use in construction zones statewide. These cameras are not to be mapped in Waze.

Chicago is currently the only community to authorize the use of permanent speed cameras. These cameras are to be mapped in Waze.

List of cities in Illinois that use red light cameras (source: IIHS, updated 12/2014):

• Addison
• Algonquin
• Alsip
• Aurora
• Bedford Park
• Bellwood
• Bensenville
• Berwyn
• Blue Island
• Calumet City
• Carol Stream
• Chicago
• Cook County
• Country Club Hills
• Countryside
• Des Plaines
• East Dundee
• East St. Louis
• Elk Grove Village
• Forest Park
• Fox Lake
• Franklin Park
• Granite City
• Gurnee
• Highland Park
• Hoffman Estates
• Hometown
• Homewood
• Lake in the Hills
• Lake Zurich
• Libertyville
• Lincolnwood
• Lisle
• Lynwood
• Lyons
• Markham
• Maywood
• Melrose Park
• Morton Grove
• North Chicago
• North Riverside
• Northfield
• Northlake
• Oak Forest
• Oak Lawn
• Olympia Fields
• Orland Park
• Palatine
• Palos Heights
• Palos Hills
• River Forest
• Roselle
• Schiller Park
• Skokie
• South Chicago Heights
• South Holland
• St. Charles
• Streamwood
• Tinley Park
• Villa Park
• Warrenville
• Wauconda
• Waukegan
• Westchester
• Western Springs
• Westmont Village
• Wheeling
• Wilowbrook
• Winfield
• Worth

To-do Lists

Keep track of work that needs to be done and coordinate efforts with other AMs.

• Illinois (no data 5/13/12)
• Chicago (no data 5/13/12)
• St. Louis

Useful Links

Instead of trudging through the hard to follow wiki layout to answer a question, or having to do a Google search to find common pages, here are some pages that are often useful for review.

Editing Guides

If you have not seen any of these guides before, please familiarize yourself with them.

• Road types/USA
• Road names/USA
• At-grade connectors
• When (Not) to Split a Two-Way Road
• Junction Style Guide (a must read)
• Creating and Editing a roundabout
• Parking Lots
• Cul-de-sacs & Loops

Forum Topics