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Route 66 World Famous Fried Chicken

Videos • Awards • Accolades

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!

Television Features

chicken baskets famous fried chicken featured on 190n with janet davies
chicken baskets famous fried chicken featured on chicagos best with ted brunson
Aired on ABC's 190 North with Host Janet Davies January 29th, 2012 in a story of Chicagoland's Oldest Places
WGN's Chicago's Best with Host Ted Brunson in August of 2011 and again as The Best of the Best 2011in December of 2011
Featured on "The Food Network's, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" with Guy Fieri Febuary 2nd, 2009

Videos

Historic Awards

Awarded a Historical Marker by the Route 66 Scenic By Way Corridor Program of The National Park Service
Entered in the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service
Inducted into The Route 66 Hall of Fame"
Awarded a Historical Marker by the Route 66 Scenic By Way Corridor Program of The National Park Service September 2010
Entered in the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service on May 5th 2006.
Inducted into The Route 66 Hall of Fame" in Pontiac, IL in June of 1992

Print Accolades

Chosen as "The Best Fried Chicken in the Chicagoland Area" by Pat Bruno of the Chicago Sun Times
Chosen as "The Best Fried Chicken" in the Chicagoland Area" by Pat Bruno of the Chicago Sun Times in 1993.