A block of South Kansas Street and East Park Street is closed as Edwardsville prepares for the Route 66 Festival. Tents and cutouts have been placed around City Park as of June 6. The festival opens ...

Water is the key to the future of Roy’s Motel & Cafe, the lone survivor in a Route 66 town that, at its peak, boasted 200 ...

A Chicago Air Quality Alert has been extended through Friday as smoke from Canada wildfires has pushed the AQI into unhealthy levels across the region.

The Edwardsville Route 66 Festival is set to bring a full day and night of fun events and activities to City Park in downtown ...

Good morning, Chicago. It’s that time of year when we look for any excuse to spend time outside. A day at the beach. A walk through the park. A road trip with the windows down. Two members of our ...

That’s exactly what happens at Route 66 Classic Grill in Santa Clarita, where nostalgia is served up as generously as their portions. That classic Chevy perched atop the entrance isn’t just decoration ...

Scott walked me over to a map in the gas station ... of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Carlson, who has Ojibwe ancestry, was critical of projects precisely like Route 66 and the way they cut through ...

“Detroit was never on Route 66, because it ended in Chicago,” Anderson said. “But the Route 66 celebration does speak to Detroit’s role in popular culture and automotive culture. The ...

This popular Chicago restaurant has been serving hearty breakfasts since 1923, three years before Route 66 officially opened to travelers. Known as the first stop on the Mother Road, this bustling ...

Route 66, stretching from Chicago to Los Angeles ... All signs were taken down and it was removed from maps. The Mother Road immortalized in novel, song, film and television ceased to exist.

Muffler Men, Paul Bunyans and other fiberglass behemoths tower over diners, gas stations and roadside attractions, adding a quirky charm to Route 66. As you head west from Chicago, the first ...