Snuffy's 24 Hour Grill, a McCook institution since 1964, a 2010 inductee into the Illinois Route 66 Hall of Fame
Following up on yesterday’s blog post about the pending lawsuit
IDOT v. Vulcan Materials, I have resurrected the two articles I wrote back in 2006 about the damaged portion of the Mother Road in McCook and some related historical information.
The McCook Sante Fe Depot of 1925 handled westbound passenger traffic as a flag stop until Amtrak took over U.S. rail service in 1971. The tracks now handle freight traffic only. From History and Progress: Village of McCook.
Over the last several years on this website I have been assembling an
archive of my articles previously published in the
Route 66 Federation News, the quarterly publication of the
National Historic Route 66 Federation. For the Spring 2006 issue, I wrote an article titled “
Of Romance and Finance; Of Marriage and McCook.”
Click here to read some background on the article and to download or view a .pdf of the article as originally published.
From the 1938 USDA Aerial Photography Project, along the now-closed section there were two quarries south of 66/Joliet Road: Consumers Company to the northeast, and Dolese & Shephard to the southwest. North of the road most of the property is Stinson Airport, with a plant for Standard Lime and Refractories in the northeast section.
I wrote another article around the same period that appeared in the Spring 2006 issue of
The 66 News, the quarterly journal of
The Route 66 Association of Illinois. This article was title “
A Look at McCook.” I have placed this article on a
blog page along with color versions of all of the photos (black and white in the published version).
Click here to read “
A Look at McCook.”
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My brother-in-law and I own Snuffy’s in McCook. Looking to sell it any suggestions on where we can start this process? Thank you.
My brother-in-law and I own Snuffy’s Grill in McCook. Looking to sell it any suggestions on where we can start this process? Thank you. P. Parzych