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Thursday marked 100 years since two entrepreneurs in Springfield, Missouri, sent a telegram to the nation’s capital requesting the name “66” for their new highway.

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A century of Route 66 celebrated at the Old Joliet Prison with The Big House Ballgame

Inside 25-foot high, sand-colored walls where inmates once served maximum security prison sentences, thousands gathered for an unusual ballgame Thursday afternoon.

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