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Description: Dell Rhea's Chicken Basket in Willowbrook (1946). It was a popular lunch stop along Route 66. The story goes that two women entered a gas station in 1938, offering to trade their recipe for fried chicken in exchange for a promise to use their chickens to make it. The Chicken Basket originally operated out of this gas station at a lunch counter, but became popular enough to warrant a new building in 1946. During winters, owner Irv Kolarik would flood the roof of the restaurant and hire local youths to skate on top of it.
Title: Dell Rheas Chicken Basket (5978659272)
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U.S. Route 66 in Illinois

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