 The Marquette Bypass was opened in November 1963 as a four @-@ lane expressway south of downtown Marquette at a cost of $ 1 @.@ 7 million ( equivalent to $ 281 million in 2015 ) . Washington and Front streets in Marquette were redesignated as Bus . US 41 at this time . While the expressway was being built , a large vein of jasper exposed , and gifts fashioned from the mineral were presented to local and state politicians . A set of cufflinks to be given to President John F. Kennedy was never presented because he was killed in Dallas just hours after the Marquette Bypass opened to traffic . 
