Route 66 100 Year Anniversary Guide

Route 66 100 Year Anniversary Guide

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Get your kicks on Route 66!  As you plan to make your way through at least Springfield’s part of the historic route on this 100th anniversary year, check out all the stories and events we have here, and are constantly adding.  Plus, read more about the national landmark highway!  Thank you to our sponsors for making this page possible:  Wellman’s Lawn Care and Recon Techs!

 

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58 minutes ago in Business, Entertainment, IL State News, Lifestyle, Local, National, Sports

Addicted to gambling in Illinois: ‘Someone has decided they can make money off you’

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A man spends the last three dollars in his pocket playing a bar slot machine in downstate Golconda on June 4, and then leaves. (Credit: Julia Rendleman for Capitol News Illinois)

People in Illinois lost more than $7.7 billion gambling last year. As lawmakers increasingly bet on gambling to pay the state’s bills, they have only spare change to treat compulsive gamblers.

7 hours ago in Entertainment

Charlie Brown’s longtime pen pal is finally revealed in new Apple TV ‘Peanuts’ movie

Charlie Brown began writing to a pen pal not long after the comic strip "Peanuts" debuted in newspapers back in 1950. No one has gotten a look at whoever was on the other end of his letters — until now.

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