Several people attended an ice cream social on July 12 at the West End Service Station in Edwardsville. Founded in 2023 as a ...

On Saturday, the 25th annual Route 66 Festival is being held in Edwardsville until 11 p.m. In 1926, the U.S. Highway System commissioned Route 66 as the first all-paved U.S. highway.

Formerly a gas station for Route 66 travelers, the building became a dental office in 1965, after Route 66 bypassed Edwardsville. The Illinois Department of Transportation purchased the site in ...

The Edwardsville Route 66 Festival is set to bring a full day and night of fun events and activities to City Park in downtown Edwardsville this Saturday, June 7. This marks the 27th year for the ...

An Edwardsville service station along the historic Route 66 corridor is getting a second chance at life as a museum and interpretive center. For nearly 40 years, the West End Service Station was a ...

Edwardsville's annual Route 66 Festival is fast approaching and this year, organizers have mapped out a nostalgic trip through the decades that the Mother Road paved a path through the city. In ...

Garden tours, a taco festival, more markets and plenty of other fun events take place this weekend in southwest Illinois and St. Louis. Garden tours, a taco festival, ...

A motorist watches owner Daniel Ricketts, left, and muralist Jerome Lamke with St. Louis Sign& Mural, hand-paint a Route 66 mural on a building on Monday, July 25, 2022, in Edwardsville, Illinois.

The Volkswagen microbus belonging to late Route 66 icon Bob Waldmire, at the Route 66 Association Hall of Fame & Museum in Pontiac, Illinois, June 21, 2025. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune) ...

The Edwardsville Route 66 Festival will run from 10 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. June 8, in and around downtown's City Park, 101 S. Buchanan St. This 26th annual event is hosted by the city's parks and ...