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Trip Segment : Joliet
Chicago is home to one of the world's tallest buildings, the Sears Tower. Standing over 1,700 feet in the air when the antenna towers are included, the Sears Tower is all of 110 stories. Route 66 starts its way west from Chicago.
The first Roadside Peek stop along the Route 66 route is a landmark, Lou Mitchell's. Featuring fantastic breakfasts with toast that's a real delight, Lou Mitchell's is the place to go to fuel up the ol' stomach prior to a Route 66 adventure.
The Brer Rabbit Motel features a neon sign with a rabbit on it.
Chicago proves to a good kick-off point for Route 66 and the city itself contains many roadside motel treasures. See others like The Stars Motel at Roadside Peek's Roadside Motels Midwest.
The trip along the 66 is full of interesting building sights... some abandoned and some not. Here in Cicero, another Route 66 landmark bakes in the sun.
Just on the outskirts of Chicago is Cicero and the Town Hall Bowl. This ten pin alley features 28 lanes and stays with the times by featuring "cyber bowl" a couple of nights a week.
A colonial looking rest stop is the Key Stop Motel in Cicero.
Near the 66 is the Bel-Air Drive-in in Cicero. Featuring 3 screens, the main screen features a way for cars to drive in the screen.
Another bowling alley in Cicero is the Palace Bowl. This place looks the part of an old bowling "palace" along what can nostalgically be looked at as Main Street America.
UPDATE 09/20: The front of this bowling alley was used in the movie Uncle Buck with John Candy. The movie showed the front of the place when Candy was headed to bowl, although the inside as I recall wasn't actually used. Many thanks to Richard Falk for update.
(Far right) The old marquee at the Tun-N-Time Restaurant (Near right) The old building at the restaurant
Here's the famed speaker posts and screen tower for the Hill-Top Drive-in in Joliet. Unfortunately, no one listens through these speakers anymore.
And now... more of Joliet.
Trip Segment : Joliet
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The Turn-N-Time Restaurant features a marquee that looks like a
flashback to the old Farrell's (So Cal fame) days. The sign in the window
say is all... "old style."