Chicago’s stunning Art Deco architecture. If you like art deco architecture and you don’t know Chicago, you may want to get it on your list. It sure is high on my list now. What a […]
Category Archives: Lincoln Hwy: Illinois
Frank Lloyd Wright in Chicago
Wall-to-wall Frank Lloyd Wright. We continue with the break from my Southern California series with a few sets from a recent Chicago visit. One of the real treats of my stay in Chicago during November […]
Route 66 in Chicago
Route 66 in Chicago – the Missing Post. Where we last left off in my California series was Seal Beach just below Los Angeles County. I had planned to post another set or two from […]
Last stops in Illinois
Morrison and Fulton. These are the last stops on the Lincoln before crossing over to Iowa. Both made a fine impression (and especially Fulton). The gas station in Fulton is an absolute classic. Although it […]
Dixon to Sterling and Rock Falls
First stop, just outside Prairieville on the Palmyra Road out of Dixon (original 1913 routing of the Lincoln Highway) for a shoot at the classic Midway Drive-In (1949), said to be the oldest standing drive-in […]
Detour to Grand Detour (and Oregon)
Just off the Lincoln Highway (up from Dixon on Illinois Route 2) is Grand Detour and a bit north of that, Oregon. Grand Detour is just a tiny village (and a lovely one indeed). Why […]
Reagan country
Dixon, IL, on the Rock River. President Reagan was born in Tampico, IL. The family later moved to Dixon where he lived from the age of 9 to 22. Reagan once wrote as follows: […]
Barbed Wire Capital of the World
DeKalb, IL – the Barb City. After St Charles one heads due west through Main Street America on the route of the Lincoln Highway all the way to the Iowa state line at the […]
St. Charles
Third and final stop on the Fox River, St Charles, IL, and the end of a long day of driving. St. Charles is also a Chicago suburb. It’s a handsome city just off the Lincoln Highway and […]
Road to Perdition
Batavia and Geneva, IL. After scruffy Aurora these next two stops on the Lincoln Highway heading north on Illinois 31 were a distinct pleasure. First, the pretty little city of Batavia (also on […]
Aurora
Afternoon stop in Aurora, IL. Aurora is another of those faded manufacturing centers one sees in the midwest. Perhaps it was the rainy weather but the city had a gloomy feel to it. Like […]
It’s a bird, it’s a plane…
It’s Superman! After Plainfield I left the Lincoln Highway for a side trip to Plano (a/k/a Smallville) where I was ticketed to visit Mies van der Rohe’s seminal Farnsworth House. (I will do a gallery […]
Plainfield
On the Lincoln Highway and Route 66 in Plainfield, IL, Sept. 2016. Leaving Joliet on the Plainfield Road in the direction of my next stop, Plainfield, I passed a monument commemorating the construction of the Lincoln […]
Joliet bound
On the Lincoln Highway and Route 66 in Joliet, IL, Sept. 2016. This is one of two Lincoln Highway cities in Illinois where the Lincoln and Route 66 meet up (the other being Plainfield). […]
Chicago Heights
On the Lincoln Highway in Illinois, September 2016. My first stops were in South Chicago Heights and Chicago Heights. Both seemed to be looking a little worse for wear. In Chicago Heights, at the […]
The Illinois Lincoln Highway murals
One of the photographic themes on my Lincoln Highway explorations has been the tremendous variety (and the quality) of murals and other street art in Lincoln Highway communities. Illinois seems to set the gold standard […]
Looking for Lincoln in Illinois
In Illinois, the Land of Lincoln. All along the Lincoln Highway one sees statues (and a lot else) commemorating America’s 16th President. At the eastern end of the Lincoln, I had my first encounter with a […]
Illinois, Sept. 2016
Driving the Lincoln Highway in Illinois. Continuing my late summer mini-Lincoln Highway trip I crossed over to Illinois from Dyer IN (first picture) and immediately got off busier US 30 and took the Sauk Trail road […]