Seen along historic Route 66 in Illinois. The Twistee Treat Diner is a retro 50's style diner offering a variety of sandwiches and ice cream for dessert. Located adjacent to Interstate 55 along the historic U.S. Route 66 in Livingston, Illinois. Flanked by landmarks it is hard to miss the hot pink elephant of Elephant Antique Mall next door, a green spaceship, the giant top of an ice cream cone, and a large man and woman greeting you. U.S. Route 66 in Illinois connected St. Louis, Missouri, and Chicago, Illinois. The historic Route 66, first known as the Main Street of America and later dubbed the Mother Road by novelist John Steinbeck in 1939, took long distance automobile travelers from Chicago to Southern California. Illinois was the first of the eight states through which the route ran to have its segment of US 66 completed at a time when much of Route 66 was still a gravel-and-dirt road. Route 66 in Illinois has now been largely replaced with Interstate 55. Parts of the original route still carry traffic and six separate portions of the roadbed have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.—Wikipedia—This image was processed as an HDR (High Dynamic Range) composition.
The Church of the Holy Family (French: Eglise de la Sainte-Famille) is a Roman Catholic church located at 116 Church Street in Cahokia, Illinois. Established by missionaries from Quebec who originally arrived in Cahokia on December 8, 1698, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, and offered the first Mass on the banks of the Mississippi River. The log church was built in 1799 and the congregation is the oldest continuously active Catholic Parish in the United States, having been founded in 1699 by the Canadian missionaries, and the oldest church west of the Allegheny Mountains. The church campus includes three buildings: the 1799 church, a modern 20th-century sanctuary, and a parish house. The 1799 church is a log structure, measuring about 32 by 74 feet. It is built out of heavy walnut timbers that were hewn into rectangular shape and mortised into a wooden sill resting on stone slabs. The timbers are each about 14 feet long, one foot wide and six inches thick, and are set about one foot apart. The spaces between them are filled with what was termed pierrotage, a mixture of rubblestone and clay. Each of the walls slopes slightly inward as it rises, and is braced by diagonal timbers. The roof trusses are of walnut and oak, and give the roof a bell-cast appearance. A remarkably unaltered example of the French colonial construction style known as "poteaux-sur-solle" (post-on-sill), and one of the few such buildings surviving in North America. It was declared a National Historic Landmark and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.— holyfamily1699.org—Wikipedia
