Illinois Route 66 - Hamel

HAMEL, ILLINOIS. I visited St. Paul's Lutheran Church in the light of a summer day, so I didn't need the reassurance offered to nighttime travelers by the church's neon cross. I could imagine, though, Route 66 in the 1950's, on a dark night without the lights of a busy interstate nearby. The blue light of the cross just might provide some divine guidance, or maybe just confirm that you were on the right road on a gloomy night.