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Girard Illinois, September 2016.

Girard Illinois was on the original alignment of Route 66 and was bypassed by the newer route in 1930.

I don't know if there is any meaning to this or not, but it wasn't until I started travelling around Illinois with my wife, that I started encountering towns with a "town square". The square would be about the size of a city block and would usually have some sort of government building or a small park in it and sometimes both. Traffic would often be routed in the fashion of a roundabout, one-way but in a square shape.

These sort of things can get swallowed by the development in cities, but most of the small towns I've encountered in Missouri seem to be laid out around a crossroad and some main streets.

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Girard Illinois, September 2016.

Girard Illinois was on the original alignment of Route 66 and was bypassed by the newer route in 1930.

I don't know if there is any meaning to this or not, but it wasn't until I started travelling around Illinois with my wife, that I started encountering towns with a "town square". The square would be about the size of a city block and would usually have some sort of government building or a small park in it and sometimes both. Traffic would often be routed in the fashion of a roundabout, one-way but in a square shape.

These sort of things can get swallowed by the development in cities, but most of the small towns I've encountered in Missouri seem to be laid out around a crossroad and some main streets.