Illinois Route 250

Illinois Route 250 is an east-west state highway in southeastern Illinois. It is similar to Illinois Route 251 in that portions of the highway replace former alignments of U.S. [Route 50 in Illinois|U.S. Route 50]. Illinois 250 has its western terminus west of the city limits of Noble and its eastern terminus at U.S. [Route 50 Business (Lawrenceville, Illinois)|U.S. Route 50 Business] in Lawrenceville. This is a distance of.

Route description

Illinois 250 serves the downtown areas of five population centers in southeast Illinois: Noble, Olney, Sumner, Bridgeport and Lawrenceville; the largest of these centers is
Olney with 8,631 people as of the year 2000. Both Lawrenceville and Olney are county seats of Lawrence [County, Illinois|Lawrence] and Richland counties, respectively. All of the population centers are feeder cities to Vincennes, which has a population of 18,071 and is the commercial center of the region.

History

U.S. Route 50 was upgraded to a divided highway in this area from the mid-1960s into the 1970s. Illinois 250 has been used to designate the U.S. Route 50 business routes into these cities since 1965.