In 1908, Aurora formally implemented the nickname "City of Lights", because it was one of the first cities in the United States to apply an all-electric street lighting system in 1881. Aurora's downtown is located on the Fox River. The historic downtown is centered on Stop Island. The city is divided into three regions, The West Side, located on the west side of the Fox River, The East Side, located between the eastern bank of the fox river and the Kane/DuPage County line, and the Far East Side/Fox Valley, which is from the County Line to the city's eastern border with Naperville.

Highways Transportation Route in Aurora

The highways in Aurora are very long and connect the city with all major centers for trading and commercial operations in the country. Seven interstate highways have crossed through Aurora some of the most important highways Route details in Aurora are given below:

Interstate 88 (I-88) is an Interstate Highway road in the state of Illinois. It operates from an interchange with Interstate 80 near Silvis and Moline to an interchange with Interstates 290 and 294 in Hillside, near Chicago. Interstate 88 is 140.60 miles (226.27 km) long. This route is unrelated to I-88 in the U.S. state of New York.

The Ronald Reagan Memorial Toll way, originally known as the East-West Toll way, is a toll road in northern Illinois. Opened November 21, 1958, it was initially designated as U.S. Route 30 Toll, and later Illinois Route 190. The unique routing extended from the Interstate 294 interchange near Hillside to Illinois Route 47 near Sugar Grove. Illinois Route 56 was overlapped on the East-West Toll way between North Aurora and Sugar Grove in 1965. That length of Route 56 makes it the only state road to be concurrent with one of the toll ways of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority.

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