Today, it serves as a relic and Welcome Center. No Route 66 journey is complete without a stop at the Illinois Route 66 Hall of Fame and Museum. The museum is packed full of Route 66 memorabilia but a ...

Not only was the famous Gemini Giant rescued from the now-defunct Launching Pad restaurant, Wilmington now also has the ...

Olive, Illinois, along Route 66. (BILL RETTEW/MEDIANEWS GROUP ... “Big Ron” at this great museum and restaurant. Huge retro gas pumps sit to the giant’s sides. Talk about snagging travelers ...

Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko, the director of the Illinois State Museum in Springfield, has been appointed by President Joe Biden to the Route 66 Centennial Commission. William "Bill" Thomas of Atlanta ...

A free museum near Route 66 celebrates America ... pushed along with the Route 66 Association of Illinois to get the giant moved about 150 miles southwest to Atlanta. They knew it would draw ...

Along the way we passed some famous roadside attractions, including the "Gemini Giant," stopped at our first Route 66 museum in Pontiac, Illinois, and found Dead Man's Curve outside Towanda.

The chief was secured on a flatbed truck, destination Illinois ... he will be at their museum, but you also will be able to see him when you drive by on Route 66.” Baker is a Muffler Man ...