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As of 2004, the highway's eastern terminus is in Detroit, Michigan at an indeterminate point downtown. Its western terminus is in Aberdeen, Washington at an intersection with U.S. Highway 101.
The highway passes through the following states:
Old U.S. 12 in Michigan runs from downtown Detroit to ChicagoThis article is about the city, for other uses of the term see Chicago (disambiguation : Hog butcher for the world,Tool maker, stacker of wheat,Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler;Stormy, husky, brawling,City of the big shoulders. Carl. It was replaced by Interstate 94 in 1952, and the state of Michigan re-routed the US 12 designation to the former route of U.S. Highway 112.
It was an old highway that ran through the middle of the major towns and cities of Michigan between Detroit and Chicago. In most cases the road is still there, and is named either " Michigan Avenue", "Old U.S. 12" or the "Red Arrow Highway", named after a World War I army division. You can still drive the highway from Belle Isle in Detroit all the way to The Magnificent Mile in Chicago. There are only a few places were you have to navigate around the new Interstate. The major break in Old U.S. 12 is in the middle of Michigan half way between the village of Parma and the city of Albion. It's at this point that I-94 cuts south a bit and bisects the old highway, forcing a motorist to navigate north on smaller roads.
The highway is considered an important historic road like Route 66. Some of it had been the original Territorial Road of Michigan laid out in the early 1800s.