Meet the people keeping iconic Route 66 motels alive: ‘Highly endangered properties’
- Posted on April 26, 2026
- By Chicago Tribune
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Meet the people keeping iconic Route 66 motels alive: ‘Highly endangered properties’

Motel owners form the backbone of Route 66. Beyond hosts, the innkeepers are plumbers and landscapers, housekeepers and historians, preservationists and tour guides.