Restaurant

Dell Rhea's Chicken Basket

Willowbrook, Illinois

Family chicken-basket roadhouse on the old road, going since the 1940s and still busy.

Time to allow
60 min

A fried chicken restaurant on the old alignment of Route 66 just southwest of Chicago, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is the kind of place travellers on the Mother Road have been pulling into for decades. Come hungry and expect a crowd at weekends.

Good to know

  • Go before the weekend dinner rush
  • Check current opening hours before driving out
Best time
Early dinner
Getting there
Parking lot on site, easy for campervans
Vehicles
Campervans fine

Data: Roadtrip. Things change: check opening times, prices and rules before you go.

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