“Route 66 is huge for us,” he said. ... Waldmire died in 2009 of cancer, before he could finish painting a map of the Route 66 stretch through Illinois on a wall of the museum.

Last September, I crossed a dream trip off my bucket list. While I'd driven many sections of Route 66 over the years, I had never tackled the entire 2,448 miles from Chicago to Santa Monica in one ...

With its 100th birthday on the horizon, Route 66 will soon be in the spotlight again. Now, a new book chronicling the history ...

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One Century, One Road Route 66, ‘The Main Street of America,’ turns 100 By Jonathan Bullington and E. Jason Wambsgans. It was created to connect us, a fused chain of existing roadways many ...

Route 66 Mural on Ogden in Chicago (Photo credit: Eddy “Precise” Lamarre) A Snapshot Near Lulu’s: Art in the Everyday. The first time we stepped off the trolley was near Ogden and Taylor ...

Waldmire was also recognized as a gentle soul with a hippie spirit, living a nomadic lifestyle in his iconic 1972 VW Microbus ...

Historic Route 66 exists today because of Angel Delgadillo, 95, of Seligman. "Now people travel from all over the world to visit us," he says.