ROUTE 66 TOURIST INFORMATION CENTER

Visit the Route 66 Information Center to learn more about the history of Springfield and Route 66. Officially recognized as the birthplace of Route 66, it was in Springfield on April 30, 1926, that officials first proposed the name of the new road that would connect Chicago to Los Angeles, the same road that in 1938 would become the first fully paved transcontinental highway in America. Many books, documents and maps.