Surviving Negro Motorist Green Book Sites in Illinois Along Route 66 (As of 2014)

From Route 66 News Blog.  These taken from the National Park Service.

Landmark Illinois has posted their 2021 Nine Most Endangered Places in the state.  One of them is actually several (but no one knows exactly how many) and that would be those places listed on the Negro Motorists' Green Book which gave the names and addresses where Blacks could eat, sleep and get gas when traveling during the United States' Jim Crow era.  They were not welcome at white establishments.

Downstate Sites still standing on Route 66.

SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS

Helen Robbins boarding house at 1616 E. Jackson Street

Nellie Tate boarding house at 400 W. Chenery Street

Julia F. Johnson boarding house at 1144 N. Seventh Street

Bessie Mosby townhouse at 1614 E. Jackson Street

Bernie Eskridge townhouse at 1501 E, Jackson Street

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EAST ST. LOUIS, ILLINOIS

P.B. Reeves boarding house at 1803 Bond Avenue

Mid-town townhouse, 2738 Bond Avenue

Places Needing Saving To Show the Way Things Were (Sadly).  --RoadDog