Lights on at the It’s Electric Neon Sign Park in Granite City

Local officials flipped the switch Thursday night at the new It’s Electric Neon Sign Park just off Route 66 in Granite City, Illinois.

According to Riverbender.com, the park at 19th Street and Delmar Avenue was funded by a $500,000 grant from the Great Rivers & Routes Tourism Bureau and the Illinois Office of Tourism to help draw more visitors to Route 66.

Here’s a report from a television station in nearby St. Louis:

Here are more photos and videos from people who attended the lighting event:

The It’s Electric Neon Sign Park lights nightly. It’s a few blocks west of the Madison Avenue alignment of Route 66 through town.

(Screen-capture image from Tallin Curran video of the lighting ceremony for the It’s Electric Neon Sign Park in Granite City, Illinois)