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Category Archives: Route 66: Illinois

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Chicago Deco

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Humans of Route 66

Special July 4 post.  We are going to return to Route 66 today for some American portraits.  There’s a photography book I got as a Christmas present (or was it a birthday gift?) a few […]

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Springfield to Granite City and the Mississippi

Day 3 (continued). Thursday 9 Feb.  Springfield to Granite City on the banks of the Mississippi. The next morning I crossed over to Missouri. To the left is a vintage postcard of the Chain of […]

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Springfield IL

Day 3. Springfield, Thursday 9 Feb. It’s the capital of the State of Illinois.   The old and new capitol buildings are impressive. The first three were taken the day before at the end of Day […]

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Bloomington to Springfield – Snow Day

Route 66, Day 2, Wednesday 8 Feb. –Bloomington to Springfield. Snow Day. The good news: the car was fine. They looked at it right away when I showed up first thing in the morning at the […]

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Wilmington to Bloomington IL

Route 66, Day 1 (Tuesday 7 Feb.) – Wilmington to Bloomington. It was a special day. My first on Route 66 on the Epic USA Road Trip. Fantastic. It was like parachuting into a completely […]

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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 […]

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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). […]