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Your Great Lakes
Chicago’s Art
W Jackson Blvd,
Institute
Chicago), before
journey begins here.
heading south-west
for Joliet (where
Sir Paul McCartney
ILLINOIS
was a recent visitor
to the Route 66
welcome centre
and historical
museum) and
Wilmington,
with its famous
Launching Pad
Drive-in and statue
of the Gemini
Giant.
In Braidwood,
have your photo
taken with life-size
mannequins of
Marilyn Monroe
and James Dean at
the 1950s Polk-
a-Dot Drive-in.
In Towanda,
When the highway stretching enterprising townsfolk have
from Chicago to Los Angeles preserved a segment of Route
was designated as Route 66 back 66 as a 1.6-mile walking trail
in 1926, its journey into legend dedicated to ‘America’s Main
began. Although Interstate 55 Street’.
has taken its traffi c, you can Some towns are true oddities,
still track the original on www. like Atlanta – with its murals and
illinoisroute66.org. Soak up 19ft tall Bunyon’s Statue of a man
the nostalgia along the ‘Mother holding a giant hotdog! – and
Road’. the strangely named Normal. In
Start with breakfast at Lou Williamsville, everyone enjoys
Mitchell’s 1923 coffee shop (565 a chat with Phil and Pat Hawley
Lake
Michigan
Galena
Volo
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84 Rockford
Fulton Chicago
Moline
East Moline
Joliet
Rock Island
Wilmington
CCTB
Braidwood
55
Nauvoo
Normal
Towanda
Atlanta
Plan an exciting holiday
172
Quincy
Williamsville to Chicago and beyond.
Springfield
72
For great itineraries and
55
55
must-see attractions, visit:
Litchfield
Elsah ROUTE: Round trip
gochicago.com
Granite City
Collinsville
from Chicago
DISTANCE: 850 miles
Belleville
ALLOW: 7-10 days
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