I’ve lived in the Boston area for over 50 years and have never heard of this. Sounds more like the South of France.
When I first came here, I found the terms “shitfaced” and “bullshit” confusing. (The first means “drunk” and the second means “angry.”
That is not how it usually interpreted, though, is it? Perhaps you mean “pissed off” versus simply “pissed”?
Yes to “shitfaced” meaning drunk. No to “bullshit” meaning angry, “bullshit” means untrue or bad.
Maybe they mean ripshit?
Anyway, OP here, noting that many of these are delightfully interesting and exactly what I was looking for, thank you.
Or apeshit?
Both way less common. Apeshit yes, mad, pissed off, or wildly out of control. Ripshit? From my experience, it’s very rare, but it would usually mean drunk.
Definitely never heard that. Here’s what I’m more familiar with
IME an ice house is an open air beer joint. Never heard a convenience store called that, but my exposure to ice houses has been mostly on the coast - Beaumont to Corpus, and one in Dallas.
Like I said, this might just be South Central Texas. I have a friend who grew up in Houston who never heard the term, so who knows?
Definitely not something I heard growing up in Dallas, but you folks in Central Texas are a mystery to all of us. 
“It’s like a whole 'nother country!”
Ice House is legit. A convenience store with the big ice bag coolers outside for a BBQ or cooler filling. I’ve heard the term even up in Iowa/Illinois.
When I lived in Houston from 1992 to 1995 I’d hang out at the The Dam Ice House. It was a converted Jiffy-lube that became a really welcoming biker bar.
There are fewer of them around now, but they still exist. Check the older neighborhoods in Boston or the surrounding downs (Cambridge, Somerville).
I think that might be something a little different than what the OP is talking about - the Dan Ryan is a particular highway, right? So it’s not really a local term for “freeway” , it’s the name of a particular one. On the other hand, where I live, we don’t have “freeways” - we have highways, which are divided into parkways and expressways (which have different rules) or we refer to them by their individual name or number so if you were here and asked for directions to the freeway, we wouldn’t know what you were talking about. Because first, we don’t call them “freeways” and second , which one are you looking for ?