Celebrate Route 66’s 100th year with Illinois State Museum’s online archive of interviews, transcripts and videos from ...

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

Route 66 is as American as burgers, cars, apple pie and baseball. Established on Nov. 11, 1926, the Mother Road stretches 2,448 miles from Chicago to Santa Monica. There are 426 drivable miles on ...

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 ...

SELIGMAN, Arizona — They came suddenly and in numbers, cars and trucks weighed down with their owners’ worldly possessions. Angel Delgadillo was a boy when those hundreds of thousands of Dust Bowl ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Rev up those engines. The Birthplace of Route 66 Parade is set to sweep the streets of downtown Springfield at 6 p.m. Friday, August 8, featuring a procession of vintage automobiles ...

The 2025 Texas Route 66 Festival closed out its 10-day celebration Saturday, June 14 with a lively finale packed with live performances, local vendors, classic cars, and a tribute to the highway’s ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. —Thousands are expected from around the state, region, and world to descend on downtown Springfield for the Birthplace of Route 66 Festival. “We have completely changed the footprint ...