Mother Road’ celebrating centennial next year; Route 66 stretches about 100 miles through Southwestern Illinois.

Journey through America’s transformative era of road travel in ‘Wagon Road to Mother Road,’ opening Nov. 16 at the Museum of ...

Demolition of the old Interstate 66 bridges along Stringfellow Road will continue over the weekend, starting on Feb. 4, during daytime and overnight hours. Aside from continued work on plans to ...

Route 66 is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2026 with a grand tour across America. From Illinois to California, ...

Getty Images Although collectors of bottles and other items found in the desert have all but gone by the wayside, Elmer Long carries on the tradition with his continual creation of a forest of bottle ...

From Chicago to the Santa Monica Pier in Los Angeles, the iconic U.S. Route 66 dates back to 1926, when it became one of the first numbered highways in the United States. What was once the primary ...

To say our week driving across America had been anything less than spectacular would be an understatement. Our group of explorers had crossed seven states in seven days on the 2022 Nitto American Road ...

U.S. Route 66, running 2,400 miles from Chicago to Santa Monica, was once one of the most-traveled highways in the nation; John Steinbeck referred to it as the “Mother Road.” But the rise of the ...

ST. ROBERT, Mo. – A new tribute to the Mother Road is set to light up the night sky in St. Robert on Friday, May 9th. It’s called the Route 66 Neon Park and it’s located at George M. Reed Roadside ...

Driving it has been called the ultimate road trip. Route 66 is known as the Main Street of America, the Will Rogers Highway and the Great Diagonal Way. Hip travel cats now call it the Mother Road, ...

The Springfield-Sangamon County Regional Planning Commission has secured two state grants that will be used to commission a redevelopment plan for Peoria Road/Ninth Street corridor and a countywide ...