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Ray Slattery board president for Joliet AreHistorical Museum sits part Route 66 display Joliet AreHistorical Museum Joliet Illinois Friday December

Ray Slattery, board president for the Joliet Area Historical Museum, sits in part of the Route 66 display at the Joliet Area Historical Museum in Joliet, Illinois, Friday, December 28, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media

Maexhibit hall Joliet AreHistorical Museum Joliet Illinois Friday December 28 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media

Main exhibit hall at the Joliet Area Historical Museum in Joliet, Illinois, Friday, December 28, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media

Image steelworker welding steel girders maexhibit hall Joliet AreHistorical Museum Joliet Illinois Friday December 28 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times

Image of a steelworker welding steel girders in the main exhibit hall at the Joliet Area Historical Museum in Joliet, Illinois, Friday, December 28, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media

Main exhibit hall at the Joliet Area Historical Museum in Joliet, Illinois, Friday, December 28, 2012 | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media

Stone quarries exhibit with prisguard tower background Joliet AreHistorical Museum Joliet Illinois Friday December 28 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times

Stone quarries exhibit with prison guard tower in background at the Joliet Area Historical Museum in Joliet, Illinois, Friday, December 28, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media

Ray Slattery board president for Joliet AreHistorical Museum looks over Route 66 display Joliet AreHistorical Museum Joliet Illinois Friday December

Ray Slattery, board president for the Joliet Area Historical Museum, looks over the Route 66 display at the Joliet Area Historical Museum in Joliet, Illinois, Friday, December 28, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media

Ray Slattery board president for Joliet AreHistorical Museum playfully sits front Jake Elwood Blues near Route 66 display Joliet AreHistorical

Ray Slattery, board president for the Joliet Area Historical Museum, playfully sits in front of Jake and Elwood Blues near the Route 66 display at the Joliet Area Historical Museum Friday, December 28, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media

Statues Jake Elwood Blues near maentrance Joliet AreHistorical Museum Joliet Illinois Friday December 28 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media

Statues of Jake and Elwood Blues near the main entrance at the Joliet Area Historical Museum in Joliet, Illinois, Friday, December 28, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media

Jean Pascal Anchise VanesRodriguez from Switzerllook ribbonlike mural spiraling upward as it depicts history people Joliet arebridge display Joliet AreHistorical

Jean Pascal Anchise and Vanesa Rodriguez, from Switzerland, look at the ribbonlike mural spiraling upward as it depicts the history of people in the Joliet area at the bridge display at the Joliet Area Historical Museum. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media

Jean Pascal Anchise VanesRodriguez from Switzerlwalk through model I M Canal lock as it opens maexhibit hall Joliet AreHistorical Museum

Jean Pascal Anchise and Vanesa Rodriguez, from Switzerland, walk through the model of the I&M Canal lock as it opens to the main exhibit hall at the Joliet Area Historical Museum in Joliet, Illinois, December 28, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media

The John Houbolt exhibit Joliet AreHistorical Museum Joliet Illinois Friday December 28 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media

The John Houbolt exhibit at the Joliet Area Historical Museum in Joliet, Illinois, Friday, December 28, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media

A couple from Switzerland was at the Joliet Area Historical Museum one morning last week, making their first stop on a Route 66 tour. “I love cars. She loves cars. It’s the most mythic road in the world to me,” Jean Pascal Anchise said. The …