From California to Illinois, enthusiasts will hit the historic highway in 2026 for yearlong events that honor America’s most ...

If you think you know the iconic Route 66, also known as the 'Mother Road,' this digital project asks you to think again.

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 ...

The annual Illinois Route 66 Red Carpet Corridor Festival will take place May 3 and 4 in central Illinois. This festival is a self-guided journey along 100 miles of historic Old Route 66 from from ...

The Mother Road commands enormous international interest: A few years back, Paul McCartney left his place in the Hamptons for a road trip on America’s old Route 66 in a 1989 Ford Bronco, hoping (yet ...

The Route 66 Jubilee, which will feature old-fashioned cars, games, costumes and storytelling, is scheduled for June 26 on ...

“Get Your Kicks on Route 66” was a 1946 song by Bobby Troup and my trip last week along what John Steinbeck called the “Mother Road” surpassed expectations. Much of the 1926, east-west, 2,448-mile ...

World-renown Route 66 starts in downtown Chicago. But you’ll want to motor west to Springfield, roughly 200 miles from the Windy City, to find the best of the Mother Road. “The big cities don’t have ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - The Illinois State Museum is launching an online database of 100 oral histories about Route 66. The Route 66 Oral History Project database includes video-recorded interviews ...

Car lots, mechanic shops, and cafes line a forlorn stretch of Route 66 in central Amarillo, but vibrant art galleries, ...