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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.
U.S. Route 66 was a highway established on November 11, 1926, connecting Chicago, Illinois to the Southwest.Several buildings from the Route 66 era still stand and are part of the Historic and Architectural Resources of Route 66 Through Illinois Multiple Property Submission on the National Register of Historic Places.
U.S. Route 66 or U.S. Highway 66 (US 66 or Route 66) is one of the original highways in the United States Numbered Highway System. It was established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected the following year. [ 3 ]
The Mother Road. America’s Highway. The Main Street of America. The Will Rogers Highway. Route 66 goes by many names, but no matter how travelers refer to it, there’s one constant everyone can ...
The Interstate Highway system built during the 1950s realigned many stretches of the original Route 66, borrowing the old designation for new, more direct thoroughfares and taking eyes away from ...
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 mechanic's garage. [ 3 ]
The station is located along historic U.S. Route 66 and is the oldest usable service station on the highway in Illinois. It serves as an example of the house and canopy gas station design. Henry Soulsby built the station in 1926 after an injury forced him to leave the mining industry [ 2 ] and operated it along with his children Russell and Ola ...
Rhys Martin, president of Oklahoma's Route 66 Association, said the Mother Road has always functioned as a linear community where its towns have been connected by the highway.