Our Route 66 road trip ended at the beginning, at East Jackson Boulevard and South Michigan Avenue in Chicago, where a brown sign hanging 12 feet high on a light post tells people they’ve reached the ...
ATLANTA — Two $1,000 grants are heading down Route 66 this week to Lincoln and Atlanta. The Mill Museum was once a popular restaurant for Route 66 travelers, but today it houses collections from the ...
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Illinois State Museum launches Route 66 oral history database for centennial
Celebrate Route 66’s 100th year with Illinois State Museum’s online archive of interviews, transcripts and videos from ...
“Get Your Kicks on Route 66” was a 1946 song by Bobby Troup and my trip last week along what John Steinbeck called the “Mother Road” surpassed expectations. Much of the 1926, east-west, 2,448-mile ...
World-renown Route 66 starts in downtown Chicago. But you’ll want to motor west to Springfield, roughly 200 miles from the Windy City, to find the best of the Mother Road. “The big cities don’t have ...
BLOOMINGTON — Towns and cities across Central Illinois are already preparing for the centennial celebration of Route 66 in 2026. "We have tens of thousands of visitors that come through the community ...
Black-owned businesses along Route 66 have the unique opportunity to earn thousands in grant money to establish or build onto their businesses. The Route 66 Road Ahead Partnership, a c oalition of ...
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