The Road Ahead Partnership today announced that Harley-Davidson has been named the Official Motorcycle of the Route 66 ...

VisitBN (the Bloomington-Normal Area Convention and Visitors Bureau) announced a yearlong celebration of the centennial of ...

Leaders gathered Tuesday in Downtown Bloomington to announce a yearlong celebration for the 100th anniversary of Route 66.

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 ...

Classic car enthusiasts are traveling along Route 66 to celebrate its centennial, showcasing restored vehicles and encouraging others to explore the historic road. Keith Flickinger, who owns a 1934 ...

This year Route 66, America’s “Mother Road”, turns 100. Running for 2,448 miles from Chicago to Santa Monica, the world’s ...

“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 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — "It winds from Chicago to LA / More than two thousand miles all the way / Get your kicks on Route 66!" Nearly 70 years ago, Nat King Cole sang his love letter to the historic ...

In 1926, U.S. Route 66 was just a road connecting the country's midsection to the West Coast, but it soon came to symbolize pursuit of the American dream. One hundred years later, communities along ...

Joliet is one of six communities nationwide — and the only one in Illinois — selected as an official Route 66 Centennial Kickoff city.