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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 ...
Iowa 80 is the world's largest truck stop, located along Interstate 80 off exit 284 in Walcott, Iowa. It sits on a 220-acre (89 ha) plot of land, three times larger than an average 75 acres (30 ha) truckstop, [1] and it receives 5,000 visitors daily. Iowa 80 features a 67,000 sq ft (6,200 m 2) main building, parking for 900 trucks, 15 diesel ...
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 ...
Before reaching the Quad Cities, I-80 passes Walcott and Iowa 80, which is self-billed as the "World's Largest Truck Stop". [31] The 65-acre (26 ha) truck stop has three restaurants, a gift shop, movie theater, museum, barber shop, and dentist on site. [32] On average, the truck stop has served more than 1.4 million customers per year since it ...
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Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores, doing business as Love's (or stylized as Loves), is an American family-owned and -operated chain of more than 630 truck stops in 42 states in the United States. The company is privately owned and headquartered in Oklahoma City. Love's ranked No. 10 on the 2022 Forbes list of America's largest private ...
An abandoned early Route 66 alignment in central Illinois in 2006. U.S. Route 66 (US 66, Route 66) was a United States Numbered Highway in Illinois that connected St. Louis, Missouri, and Chicago, Illinois. The historic Route 66, the Mother Road or Main Street of America, took long distance automobile travelers from Chicago to Southern California.
Casey (pronounced KAY-zee [5]) is a city in Clark and Cumberland counties in the U.S. state of Illinois.The population was 2,404 at the 2020 census. The Cumberland County portion of Casey is part of the Charleston–Mattoon Micropolitan Statistical Area.