The Lincoln Highway around Chicago
By: Cynthia L. Ogorek.
Series: Images of America
Publisher: Arcadia Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9780738551975
Subjects: Lincoln Highway -- History; Lincoln Highway -- Pictorial works
Genres: Pictorial works.
Description: Once known as the "Main Street of America," The Lincoln Highway through western Indiana and eastern Illinois became the first urban bypass on the first hard-surfaced transcontinental highway in the nation. Some 200 vintage photographs visit sites that early-day tourists saw, and documents the people who made the highway what is was.
Table of contents: title: The original route; title: The roadway de luxe; title: If you build it, they will come; title: A different kind of interurban; title: How the bypass was bypassed; title: The highway as destination.