 Woodruff Expressway

The Raoul Wallenberg Expressway, originally known as the Woodruff Expressway, was a controversial plan to link downtown Rockford, Illinois to Interstate 39.In the 1940s and 1950s, as the Northwest Tollway (today's Interstate 90) was being routed through the Rockford area, local politicians debated the costs and benefits of various routings of the tollway.