From the April 1, 2016, Bloomington (Illinois) Pantagraph "Downtown draw: Route 66 visitors center drives tourism."
Bloomington-Normal has become a destination for thousands of Route 66 travelers in the first year of the Cruisin' With Lincoln on 66 Visitors Center.
"These are visitors who have been bypassing our community for years," Beth Whisman, executive director of the McLean County Museum of History said.
The one year anniversary will be celebrated at 4 p.m. on April 25. It opened April 25, 2015 and since then they have had 16,000 visitors. Of the 3,211 who signed the register, 311 were international and 933 from out-of-state.
Maybe I won't superslab it around the towns anymore.
About Time. --RoadDog
RoadDog's RoadLog Blog: Being my travels down those great two lane highways of this nation as well as news I learn about them from media sources. Since I'm also very interested in historic preservation, there will be a lot of that as well.
The Shamrock Court Motel in Sullivan, Missouri. It can be yours for $125,000. Lots of possibilities. Actually, now you're too late. Missouri's Roamin' Rich bought it.
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