A downtown art gallery has unveiled an exhibition of curated work from a local artist known for his work related to Route 66.

Route 66 often conjures images of quaint small towns, but its foundation has always been rooted in Chicago.

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

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 ...

Summer in Springfield continues to show residents and visitors exactly why Illinois’s capital of 100,000 comes alive when the sun makes its long-awaited debut.

Illinois Route 66 officially begins in downtown Chicago, where Lou Mitchell’s has been welcoming road trippers since before the route was even numbered.

The Springfield 66 Project is inviting local artists to help celebrate 100 years of Route 66 with their centennial sculpture ...

Route 66 extends nearly 180 miles across the Texas Panhandle. About 20 miles east of the border, the town of Adrian advertises itself as the route’s midpoint, equidistant to Chicago and Los Angeles.

Continuing east of Jericho, the Route 66 town of McLean boasts a museum, opened in 1991 in a former brassiere factory, dedicated to barbed wire — the devil’s rope, as it’s often called.

In the heart of Dwight, Illinois, where the legendary Route 66 stretches its asphalt arms across the prairie, there’s a place ...