A look at how states from Oklahoma to Illinois to California are reviving America's most iconic highway for its 100th ...

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Visitors to this year’s Illinois State Fair will be able to visit one of the nation’s more historic highways with the creation of the Route 66 Experience. The multiyear project ...

Everybody loves the glow of neon signs, said Ace Sign Co. CEO Todd Bringuet. A lot of those pieces at the sign company's museum in Springfield have a connection to Route 66, he said. "It's a different ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- This story is both a trip back in time and a look ahead. Historic Route 66, which of course had one of its terminal points in Chicago, turns 100 in a few years. And an Illinois museum ...

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 ...

ROUTE 66, Ill. (WCIA) – It’s a pilgrimage that tens of thousands from across the state, nation, and world do every year… Getting their kicks on Route 66! Destination Illinois’ Jack Gerfen highlights a ...

A new exhibition honoring one of the original highways in the United States is in the works at the Illinois State Museum, the institution announced recently. The exhibit is set to open in 2026 to ...

"It winds from Chicago to LA," and before you go "more than 2,000 miles all the way," a full trek of Historic Route 66 takes you through Illinois and the communities that thrived on visitors and ...