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Car show at Route 66 in 2006. The Berwyn Route 66 Museum was perhaps best known for its co-sponsorship of the Historic Route 66 Car Show, [7] an annual event held on the first Saturday of September that features classic and custom cars, trucks and motorcycles [8] and has been organized by that same local Route 66 preservation group since 1990.
Route 66 in Illinois is also famous for some very quirky jumbo-size attractions, such as the former Bunyon's Paul Bunyan statue, a 19-foot (5.8 m) "Muffler Man" giant originally from a Berwyn hot dog shack that now stands in the quaint downstate community of Atlanta; the similar Gemini Giant in Wilmington; the largest wind farm East of the ...
A Route 66 museum is a museum devoted primarily to the history of U.S. Route 66, a U.S. Highway which served the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois, in the United States from 1926 until it was bypassed by the Interstate highway system and ultimately decommissioned in June 1985.
Now: Truxton, Arizona. Truxton wasn't much of anything until the 1950s postwar car boom, and then became one among many Route 66 cities bypassed by the construction of Interstate 40 in 1979.
While Berwyn is known as the "City of Homes," it also contains four primary business corridors: Ogden Ave, the Depot District, Cermak Road, and Roosevelt Road. Ogden Ave, a segment of historic Route 66, is an automobile-centered district, and at its peak the road included over a dozen car dealerships in Berwyn. [27]
Route distance: 400 miles. Suggested length of time: 2 to 3 days “The Land of Enchantment is just that for Route 66 travelers, offering almost 400 miles of history to explore,” says Busby.
Illinois Route 43; Illinois Route 47; Illinois Route 66 Association Hall of Fame and Museum; Illinois Route 157; Illinois Route 203; Interstate 55 Business (Lincoln, Illinois) Interstate 55 Business (Springfield, Illinois)
However, the mayor of Berwyn described the sculpture as "icon in our community", [10] and Bermant claimed that the shopping center received 30% more business than comparable shopping centers due to the quirky art around the center. [4] When Bermant died in 2000, the artwork lost one of its major defenders and the shopping center changed hands.