The Route 66 Chick

The only problem that Route 66 roadies should be facing in Illinois June 13-14 is how to fit everything into one weekend! An amazing array of activities and attractions await! When a handful of us gathered in Carlinville in November 2014 to establish the Blue Carpet Corridor, one of the first decisions to make was choosing the date. We eventually concluded that the second weekend in June made the most sense. We could build visitation onto two established and long-running festivals that weekend - Chatham's American Legion Homecoming and Edwardsville's Route 66 Festival. It also meant that the Blue Carpet Corridor would coincide with the Route 66 Association of Illinois' annual Motor Tour! And on alternate years, the Illinois Motor Tour begins in Edwardsville! This year's Illinois Motor Tour - the 26th annual! - kicks off on Friday evening with dinner at Solerno's in Hodgekins, leaves the Berwyn Car Museum on Saturday morning, and ends its first full day with the ...

"Now it's one for the money, two for the show. Three to get ready, now go, cat, go. But don't you step on my blue suede shoes." Elvis knew that blue was cool, and so does the Illinois Route 66 Blue Carpet Corridor. I love it when a plan starts to come together, and 18 communities and a few of us organizational-officer-types are making it happen. It's been a productive and positive week in the land of blue carpet. The first exciting thing to happen this week was the reveal of the awesome 2015 Illinois Motor Tour/Blue Carpet Corridor logo! Some months ago, our BCC group voted unanimously to partner with the Route 66 Association of Illinois on this. We agreed to let the association use our official BCC theme - "Miners, Mobsters and the Mother Road" - on the logo design for the 2015 Motor Tour, in exchange for BCC using the logo on merchandise and publicity. Win-win! Don't you just love this design? Here's the link for the Route 66 Associati...