E. Jason Wambsgans

4 days ago | chicagotribune.com | Jonathan Bullington |E. Jason Wambsgans

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Our Route 66 road trip began at the end, at the famed fishing pier jutting out into the Pacific Ocean. On a breezy Sunday afternoon, the first day of June, a steady stream of visitors waited their turns to pose with one of the pier’s most popular attractions: a Route 66 sign, perched on a pole 12 feet above the wooden planks, advertising the spot as the “end of the trail.”Except, it’s not really the end.

4 days ago | yahoo.com | Jonathan Bullington |E. Jason Wambsgans

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Our Route 66 road trip began at the end, at the famed fishing pier jutting out into the Pacific Ocean. On a breezy Sunday afternoon, the first day of June, a steady stream of visitors waited their turns to pose with one of the pier’s most popular attractions: a Route 66 sign, perched on a pole 12 feet above the wooden planks, advertising the spot as the “end of the trail.”Except, it’s not really the end.

1 week ago | chicagotribune.com | Jonathan Bullington |E. Jason Wambsgans

Route 66, ‘The Main Street of America,’ turns 100By Jonathan Bullington and E. Jason WambsgansIt was created to connect us, a fused chain of existing roadways many unpaved that stretched 2,448 miles across eight states and three time zones, starting steps from Lake Michigan in downtown Chicago and ending near the Pacific Ocean and Santa Monica’s famed fishing pier. Route 66, “The Main Street of America.”There is perhaps no better-known highway anywhere in the world.

1 month ago | chicagotribune.com | E. Jason Wambsgans |Armando L. Sanchez

Students and professors at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois Chicago held events Thursday as part of the National Day of Action for Higher Ed, a nationwide effort to protest the Trump administration’s cuts to education funding and changes to policy.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | E. Jason Wambsgans |Armando L. Sanchez

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