REMARKABLE ROUTE 4 (6 days)
DAY 1
Springfield
– Abraham Lincoln Museum
– Lincoln Home and Historic District
– Old State Capitol
DAY 2
– Virden: town squre and Battle of Virden Monument
– Carlinville: town square, Route 66, Sears Homes District, History Museum
LUNCH 
– Carlinville: Courthouse, Old Jail, Silk Stocking District
DINNER AND OVERNIGHT IN LITCHFIELD
DAY 3
– Gillespie: Coal Museum, Progressive Miners of America Historical Marker 
LUNCH: Staunton Lake Winery
– Lebanon: main street architecture
– Mascoutah: main street, historic cemetery, history museum
– Marissa: coal mining memorial
– Sparta: “In the Heat of the Night” train depot
DINNER AND OVERNIGHT IN CHESTER
DAY 4
– Chester Popeye Trail
– Chester Post Office (consider the controversy of the covered mural)
– Chester Library
– Chester’s Mark Twain House with the Blue Windows
LUNCH (Chester)  
– Maeystown National Register of Historic Places (German town)
– Waterloo: historic downtown walk around, Bellefontaine House, Senator Rickert house, miners marker
DINNER AND OVERNIGHT IN COLUMBIA
DAY 5
French Cahokia: Holy Family Church, Courthouse, Jarrot Mansion
LUNCH
Cahokia Mounds World Heritage Site
DINNER AND OVERNIGHT IN COLLINSVILLE
DAY 6
Alton: Lincoln-Douglas Debate Square, Locks and Dam, National Great Rivers Museum
LUNCH: Tilley’s Route 66 Bar & Grill in Mt Olive
Mt Olive: Mother Jones Museum, Union Miners Cemetery, Soulsby Route 66 Gas Station