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Lou Mitchell's Restaurant565 W. Jackson Blvd.Phone: 312-030-3111 link 
The current location was built in 1949. A large and original 1949 neon sign hangs on the gray glazed tile clad front of the building. The line under the name on the sign reads "Serving the World’s Best Coffee".
It is open daily for breakfast and lunch and located at Jackson Blvd & Jefferson St. Providing Milk Duds candies to women and children as they enter the restaurant has been a tradition here since 1958. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. Photo9s): 2012
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second sign protrudes out over the sidewalk proclaiming "We do
Our Own Quality Baking". 
Sunlight
reflected from the building across the street shines on the front of
the building. The sign on the roof annouces that the restaurant was
"Selected No 1 Breakfast & Lunch Restaurant in America"
Did
You Know: Many parts of the old 4 lane Route 66 were reverted to a 2 lane
road after 66 was realigned to the interstate. In many places the abandoned
lanes are still there.