CHICAGO (AP) – Thanks to a predilection for naming sections of interstate highways after people, a Chicago commuter can take a trip on the Edens, the Kennedy, the Ryan and the Bishop Ford without ever leaving the same road.

Now that the East-West Tollway has been renamed for former President Reagan, locals also can revel in taking the Ike to the Gipper -and visitors have a new excuse for getting lost.

The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority voted Monday at a special session to rename the East-West Tollway-Interstate 88 from Chicago to Sterling-the Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway. At Sterling, it becomes the Ronald Reagan Memorial Highway, the non-toll portion of I-88 that Gov. Rod Blagojevich renamed last week.

Reagan, the only Illinois native to become president, died June 5 at age 93. The Reagan Tollway passes just south of Dixon, the northwest Illinois town where Reagan grew up.

Before Monday, all the toll authority’s toll roads, except for the Tri-State linking Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, were named for their directions: The East-West, the North-South (I-355) and the Northwest Tollway (I-90).