[4][5] Army Trail Road then passes Illinois Route 59 and heads east along the border of Bartlett and Carol Stream.

Past the interstate, the road meets Illinois Route 53, the eastern terminus of County Highway 11.

[6] Near its end at the Fox River is a stone marking the graves of U.S. Army soldiers of the Indian War era.

Until December 1989, Army Trail Road was the southern terminus of the freeway portion of Illinois Route 53, which was subsequently designated I-355.

In December 1989, the North-South Tollway was opened extending the limited access highway south to I-55 and reducing the traffic flow caused by the concurrency of Route 53 and a short stretch of Army Trail Road.