If you need to plan a car trip before summer is gone, why not experiencing the historic US Route 66 trough Illinois? However, before you pack up the kids visit the Illinois State Library website [2] for Route 66. “The State Library’s resources include books, maps and periodicals along with links to significant Route 66 collections in the Illinois Digital Archives. The Library also has a collection of aerial photographs of Illinois from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) showing Route 66 as it existed in Illinois between 1937 and 1941.”
Links:
[1] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/libraries-collections/evanston-campus/transportation-library
[2] http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/library/public/route66/home.html
[3] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/related-pages/car-trip