I don't know if I'd call this an immediate change, rather a discussion, but I clinched IL-53 over the weekend and took this photo of the southern END marker.
![](https://i.imgur.com/VW6nNJD.jpg)
...or at least, I thought I had clinched IL-53. When I went to log my route on TM, I noticed IL-53 supposedly connects back to I-55 directly, just slightly west of the intersection in the photo. Out in the field, there is no indication that IL-53 connects to I-55. Is there official documentation that says otherwise? Was this just implied because it's still maintained by IDOT? Am I splitting hairs over nothing? (Probably. But it bugs me since I actually didn't drive this tiny segment back to I-55!)
Take a look at some Street Views from the ramps and this intersection just east of I-55. Personally, I think it should be truncated to this intersection, with that very last southern (technically, western here) segment removed.