# Interstate 94 *East–west Interstate Highway from Montana to Michigan through Minnesota; in the Minnesota record, the highway named in an at-issue entry on home losses in Saint Paul.* Interstate 94 (I-94) runs east to west across the northern Great Plains and the Great Lakes. Its western end is a junction with I-90 a short distance east of Billings, Montana. Its eastern end is at Port Huron, Michigan, where it meets I-69 and crosses the Blue Water Bridge into Sarnia, Ontario.[^1] In [[Minnesota]] it enters from Fargo, North Dakota, at Moorhead[^2] and links [[St. Cloud]] with the Twin Cities of [[Minneapolis]] and [[Saint Paul, Minnesota]].[^1] In the Minnesota record the highway appears in one at-issue entry, AI-Ramsey-037. The entry records that one in every eight African Americans in Saint Paul lost a home to Interstate 94. It attributes that figure to the [[Minnesota Historical Society]] Library. It also records that construction began in September 1956 and ran to 1968.[^3] The entry is filed in the Ramsey County package's tier on [[Rondo]]. Its anchor document is a March 2025 presidential action on fraud, waste and abuse in federal spending.[^3] ## What I-94 is the only east–west Interstate with a direct link to Canada. Among Interstates whose route numbers are not divisible by 5, it is the longest.[^1] Together with I-90 to the west and Ontario Highway 401 to the east, it forms part of the main overland corridor between Seattle and Toronto. In Sarnia the roadway continues as Ontario Highway 402.[^1] I-94 meets I-90 more than once: at its western end, on the stretch from Tomah to Madison in Wisconsin, in Chicago, and at Lake Station, Indiana.[^1] The Federal Highway Administration lists three-digit auxiliary routes in five metropolitan areas:[^4] - Bismarck, North Dakota: I-194, which is unsigned. - Minneapolis–Saint Paul: I-394, I-494 and I-694. - Milwaukee: I-794 and I-894. - Chicago: I-294. - Battle Creek, Michigan: I-194. ## When The first part of I-94 finished with Interstate money under the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 was in North Dakota. It was a 12-mile (19 km) stretch from Jamestown to Valley City, completed in 1958.[^5] The Minnesota projects recorded in the route's history include the following:[^5] - 2005: the bridge carrying I-94 over the Crow River near St. Michael, about 35 miles (56 km) northwest of Minneapolis, was rebuilt. - 2006: the four-lane section east of Downtown Saint Paul, between MN 120 and McKnight Road, was finished as six lanes. - 2006–2007: in Maple Grove, the Maple Grove Parkway interchange replaced the 95th Avenue North (Hennepin County Road 30) interchange. The parkway was later designated Hennepin County Road 121. - 2001–2002 and 2006: a separate overpass bridge was built in 2001–2002. The old two-lane bridge at the site was torn down in July 2006. Elsewhere on the route, the expanded Marquette Interchange in Downtown Milwaukee opened in August 2008 at a cost of $810 million.[^5] In Detroit, I-94 took over the existing Edsel Ford Freeway and carried that name on its signs until the late 1980s. Its interchange with the Lodge Freeway, built in 1953, was the first full-speed freeway-to-freeway interchange in the United States.[^5] ## Where ### Montana From Billings the route heads northeast past Forsyth, Miles City and Glendive, then leaves the state eastbound.[^6] It serves seven counties: Yellowstone, Treasure, Rosebud, Custer, Prairie, Dawson and Wibaux. It keeps to the Yellowstone River valley between Billings and Glendive.[^6] ### North Dakota I-94 crosses into North Dakota at Beach. It runs through the Badlands near Medora, by the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.[^6] East of there it serves Dickinson, Mandan, Bismarck, Jamestown, Valley City and West Fargo before leaving the state at Fargo. Across the state it largely parallels the railroad and the old alignment of US 10, known as "The Old Red Trail".[^6] Its junctions include I-194 and US 83 at Bismarck, US 52 and US 281 at Jamestown, and I-29 and US 81 at Fargo.[^2] ### Minnesota Along I-94 in Minnesota, the main junctions are:[^2] - Moorhead: US 75. - Fergus Falls: US 59, which shares the route for 11 miles (18 km). - [[Sauk Centre]]: US 71. - Brooklyn Park: US 169. - Maple Grove: I-494 and I-694. - Minneapolis: I-394, and I-35W, which shares the route for less than a mile. - Saint Paul: I-35E, which shares the route for under half a mile; US 10, which shares it for 2 miles (3.2 km); and US 61, which shares it for 1 mile (1.6 km). - [[Oakdale]]: I-494 and I-694 again. US 52 runs with I-94 from Jamestown, North Dakota, to Saint Paul.[^2] ### Wisconsin Wisconsin junctions include:[^2] - Baldwin: US 63. - Eau Claire: US 53. - Osseo: US 10. - Tomah: I-90, which shares the route to Madison. - Portage: I-39. - Madison: US 151. - Waukesha: US 18. - West Allis: I-41 and I-894. - Milwaukee: I-43 and I-794. ### Illinois, Indiana and Michigan In Illinois the route shares pavement with I-90 for 16 miles (26 km) in Chicago.[^2] It then follows I-80 to Lake Station, Indiana, and crosses Indiana by way of Hammond, Gary and Michigan City.[^2] From there it continues into Michigan, where it serves Detroit before ending at Port Huron.[^1] ## In the at-issue record At-issue entry AI-Ramsey-037 is ranked 37. It sits in the Ramsey County package's section *Tier III — Rondo: The Apology and the Ledger (Pairs 37–52)*.[^3] The entry gives a single statement in three parts: - One in every eight African Americans in Saint Paul lost a home to Interstate 94. - The figure is published by the Minnesota Historical Society Library. - Construction began in September 1956 and continued to 1968. The entry lists two record sources on the libguides.mnhs.org and mnhs.org domains.[^3] Neither appears among this article's citable sources. The entry sets that statement beside an anchor document from the White House. The anchor is the March 2025 presidential action *Protecting America's Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse*.[^3] The package gives its reason for the pairing as "a federally funded program's documented population-level property destruction".[^3] The entry's source line points to finding RF-9 of the package's Warren E. Burger dossier, which deals with Rondo.[^3] The pack does not include the text of the presidential action. On this record, the article does not establish what that document says about Interstate 94 or Saint Paul. ## In the Minnesota record ### Where - Saint Paul: the at-issue entry records that one in every eight African Americans in the city lost a home to Interstate 94, a figure it attributes to the Minnesota Historical Society Library.[^3] - Minnesota segment: from Moorhead through Fergus Falls, Sauk Centre, Brooklyn Park, Maple Grove, Minneapolis and Saint Paul to Oakdale.[^2] ### When - September 1956 to 1968: construction dates as given in the at-issue entry.[^3] - 2005–2007: rebuilding of the Crow River bridge, widening east of Downtown Saint Paul, and the new Maple Grove Parkway interchange.[^5] ## Notes [^1]: Wikipedia contributors, *Interstate 94*, lead section (revision 1381270724, retrieved 27 October 2026) — termini, Canadian connection, route-number distinction, I-90 junctions and major cities served. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_94 [^2]: Wikipedia contributors, *Interstate 94*, "Major intersections" (revision 1381270724, retrieved 27 October 2026) — junctions and concurrency lengths by state, including the Minnesota segment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_94 [^3]: The White House, *Protecting America's Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse* (March 2025) — anchor document of at-issue entry AI-Ramsey-037. The entry's one-in-eight figure and its September 1956–1968 construction dates are attributed in the entry to the Minnesota Historical Society Library, not to this document. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/protecting-americas-bank-account-against-fraud-waste-and-abuse/ [^4]: Wikipedia contributors, *Interstate 94*, "Auxiliary routes", citing the FHWA (revision 1381270724, retrieved 27 October 2026) — list of three-digit auxiliary routes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_94 [^5]: Wikipedia contributors, *Interstate 94*, "History" (revision 1381270724, retrieved 27 October 2026) — first Interstate-funded section (1958), Minnesota projects 2001–2007, Marquette Interchange, Detroit segments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_94 [^6]: Wikipedia contributors, *Interstate 94*, "Route description" (revision 1381270724, retrieved 27 October 2026) — Montana and North Dakota routing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_94