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IRU reports that Chicago's I-294/I-290/I-88 intersection was the top U.S. freight bottleneck in 2026. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Top 100 truck bottlenecks in the US · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:d1d1a68121738f4c7b7510b39dae213c1f439b20621c5785affffb2377df1b0c

For the first time ever, the intersection of I-294 and I-290/I-88 in Chicago is the top freight bottleneck in the country, surpassing the long-standing number one bottleneck in Fort Lee, New Jersey.