Dell Rhea's Chicken Basket has been in countless Route 66 documentaries and travel books on Route 66 and has visitors from around the world on a regular basis!
Aired on ABC's 190 North with Host Janet Davies January 29th, 2012 in a story of Chicagoland's Oldest Places
Featured on WGN's Chicago's Best with Host Ted Brunson in August of 2011 and again as The Best of the Best 2011 in December of 2011
Awarded a Historical Marker by the Route 66 Scenic By Way Corridor Program of The National Park Service September 2010
Featured on "The Food Network's, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" with Guy Fieri Febuary 2nd, 2009
Entered in the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service on May 5th 2006.
Chosen as "The Best Fried Chicken in the Chicagoland Area" by Pat Bruno of the Chicago Sun Times in 1993.
Inducted into "The Route 66 Hall of Fame" in Pontiac, IL in June of 1992
