Along 66, March 2019: Bloomington's (Ill.) Parkview Inn Reopens

Theses Along 66 posts come from the Route 66 News blog which has many other things happening on our favorite road and in much greater detail.  I just pick out some of the posts I am most interested in.  But if you want to know what is going on along 66, I strongly suggest you check it out.

MARCH 4--   The rebuilt Parkview Inn in Bloomington, Illinois, is to reopen this month.  Afire in 2016 did $300,000 in damage so bad the place had to be rebuilt from the ground up.  The new structure cost $1.1 million.

It pays homage to Route 66 in its interior decor and on the sign outside.

It was originally built in 1928 and is on the 1930-1940 Route 66 alignment and at 1003 Morris Avenue.

At the time of the fire, it was reportedly Bloomington's oldest restaurant on Route 66.

We have never been to this place, but now that Bloomington-Normal seems to have become cognizant of their Route 66 heritage and pushing it (hey, there's money to be made) we have more often not taken the interstate around those two towns.  Plus, they now have signage which they didn't in the past.

So Proud of Bloomington-Normal, Finally.  --RoadDog