Lincoln Highway
US 30 crosses the village east to west along the route of the Lincoln Highway, the early twentieth-century road linking New York and San Francisco. On the poster it is one of the longest straight lines.
Tabula geographica minimalis · United States
41.5039° N / 87.7131° W
A south-suburban Chicago grid where Interstate 57, the Lincoln Highway and the Metra Electric line cut clean lines across former prairie.





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Matteson sits on the flat land south of Chicago, where the old prairie was divided into survey-mile squares long before the houses arrived. From above, that pattern is still easy to read. Section-line roads run straight north–south and east–west, and the residential streets inside each square form the loops, cul-de-sacs and short crescents typical of postwar Illinois suburbs.
The village began as a railroad settlement and is named after Joel Matteson, a governor of Illinois in the 1850s. The rail corridor still runs through town and now carries Metra Electric commuter trains toward downtown Chicago. On the map it reads as a long, unbroken line, and most streets meet it at right angles instead of crossing it at random.
Two major roads frame the picture. Interstate 57 runs north–south through the village with its interchange ramps, and US 30, the historic Lincoln Highway, runs east–west along one of the country's earliest coast-to-coast routes. A Matteson map poster shows where a transcontinental road, a commuter railway and quiet residential blocks meet, all in one orderly composition.
US 30 crosses the village east to west along the route of the Lincoln Highway, the early twentieth-century road linking New York and San Francisco. On the poster it is one of the longest straight lines.
The interstate runs north–south through the village. Its interchange ramps are the most curved, sculptural shapes on an otherwise rectilinear map.
Between the section-line roads, subdivisions use curving drives and cul-de-sacs. Each square mile gets its own pattern of rounded lines inside a rigid outer frame.
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For people who grew up in the south suburbs or rode the Metra from here, the map is a quiet record of daily routes: the station, the highway ramps, the street where the family house stood. It suits a hallway, a home office or a first apartment in the city.
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