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A typical breakfast dish served at the Dixie. The Dixie Travel Plaza, previously known as the Dixie Truck Stop and Dixie Trucker's Home, [1] is a large trucker and travel plaza located in McLean, Illinois, on Interstate 55. [2] It was established by J.P. Walters and John Geske in 1928 on old US Route 66 as a small sandwich stand in a truck ...
From there, the route veered northeast through the towns of Lawndale, Atlanta, McLean, Funk's Grove, and Shirley. McLean is home to the famous Dixie Travel Plaza, a truck stop that was established as the Dixie Truckers Home in 1928. [8] To the north is Funks Grove, settled by the Funk family in 1824 where pure "maple sirup" [a] is made.
2399296 [1] Wikimedia Commons. McLean, Illinois. Website. www.mclean-il.com. McLean is a village in McLean County, Illinois, United States. The population was 743 at the 2020 census, [3] down from 830 in 2010. It is part of the Bloomington – Normal Metropolitan Statistical Area. McLean is the home of the Dixie Travel Plaza.
The Big Horn Travel Center is a 9,000-square-foot truck stop that houses an enormous convenience store, several fast-food restaurants, and the "cleanest bathrooms in Texas," according to at least ...
The first Road Ranger was opened in 1984 in Rockford, Illinois, by Northern Illinois University business graduate Daniel "Dan" Arnold. The first location was purchased with $5,000 of Arnold's savings and a loan taken out by him and his wife. Arnold sold the company to Phillips Petroleum in 1990 to pursue other interests in real estate and ...
In 1971, Amtrak took over the task of moving people between Chicago and St. Louis, and Pontiac has continued to be a stop. [36] Pontiac is home to the Illinois Route 66 Hall of Fame. It was previously located at Dixie Truckers Home in McLean, Illinois, but it was moved to a new, larger location in Pontiac when Dixie changed ownership.
Map of the Dixie Route to Florida and connecting lines, published by the C&EI, L&N, and NC&StL railroads, 1926. Preferred Share of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Company, issued 25. July 1889. The Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad (reporting mark CEI) was a Class I railroad that linked Chicago to southern Illinois, St. Louis, and ...
There are 35 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 1 National Historic Landmark. Another two properties were once listed, but have since been removed. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted August 16, 2024.[ 2] Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap.