"I want to see America the way it used to be," said transportation reporter Jerry Carnes of his road trip along Route 66, from Chicago to Santa Monica, California.

Find out the best stops along Route 66 on a Chicago to Los Angeles (or Los Angeles to Chicago) driving trip across the USA.

Forty miles north, artist Robert Ryan, 61, stopped to inspect a detail in the mural he’s painting on a storage building along ...

Kansas has by far the shortest segment of Route 66 of all eight states. Along the 13.2-mile stretch, we found one town that ...

The journey from Boston to Los Angeles takes travellers through iconic cities and crosses through 17 states and amazing ...

International visitors provided record business to Joplin and its hospitality economy last year, according to a recent study. “For the first time, the impact surpasses $6 million,” Patrick Tuttle, ...

Five cities will join Springfield, Missouri, next spring in launching the Route 66 Centennial with simultaneous celebrations ...

Gov. Mike Kehoe signed a new law allowing the Missouri Department of Transportation to use state money for Route 66 signs.

The First 100 Years,” a new book that takes readers on a journey through the historic highway's life, demise and renaissance.

Stretching from Chicago’s steely skyscrapers to Santa Monica’s sun-soaked shores, Route 66 is undeniably iconic. Built in ...

Missouri. Crossing into Missouri on Route 66, you’ll quickly discover Ted Drewes’s Chippewa Street location, right along the Mother Road.

Missouri. Crossing into Missouri on Route 66, you’ll quickly discover Ted Drewes’s Chippewa Street location, right along the Mother Road. Serving its famously thick frozen custard since 1929, ...