Hollywood gave us a version of the Old West filled with shootouts and saloons, yet the real frontier was far more complex and ...

The El Pueblo Motor Inn, or what’s left of it anyway, sits vacant behind a chain-link fence along Route 66, its stucco walls clad in weathered sheets of construction tarp. At first glance, the nearly ...

Near the eastern start of Route 66 stands one of its most architecturally striking landmarks. On Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago, so close to Millennium Park that you can see its reflection in the ...