Sheridan Road is a major north-south street that leads from Diversey Parkway[1] in Chicago, Illinois, north to the Illinois-Wisconsin border and beyond to Racine.

Sheridan Road is known for its historic sites, lakefront parks, and gracious mansion homes in Evanston through Lake Bluff.

[4] In 1889 this road was named Sheridan Road for Philip Henry Sheridan,[5] a general in the Civil War who coordinated military relief efforts in Chicago following the Great Chicago Fire.

This made the route coextensive with the Illinois portion of Sheridan Road.

[13][9] In 1974, as part of the Amstutz Expressway's construction,[14] the road was narrowed to two lanes and a overpass built in Waukegan.