An Illinois state lawmaker is looking to rename a 270-mile stretch of Interstate 55 as the “Barack Obama Expressway.”

In a press release Wednesday, state Rep. La Shawn Ford, D-Chicago, said he is drafting legislation to dub the portion of the highway from the Tri-State Tollway to East Street Louis for Obama, who before serving as president, served as a community organizer in Chicago and became a state senator and U.S. senator from Illinois.