Tag: Route 66 history
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Chili, Neon, and a Courthouse Dome: Carlinville, Illinois
I rolled into Carlinville, Illinois, on a bright February afternoon back in 2020. The sky was full of pillowy white clouds and the courthouse dome rose above East Main like a crown. Route 66 once passed through here, but only briefly, from 1926 to 1930. Even so, Carlinville feels like the kind of place where
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Route 66: The Mother Road by Michael Wallis
The Book That Defined Route 66 This week’s Roadside Reads and Reels featured book is Route 66: The Mother Road by Michael Wallis. I picked it up not long after it was released in 1990. At the time, I was working as an over-the-road truck driver, crisscrossing the country and catching glimpses of many of
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