Sign denoting the passage of the Lincoln Highway through town in DeKalb, Illinois. Begun in 1913, the 3,389-mile-long highway, now U.S. Highway 30 — named for onetime U.S president Abraham Lincoln — was one of the first transcontinental two-lane highways across America, eventually connecting Times Square in New York City on the East Coast to Lincoln Park in San Francisco on the Pacifc Ocean. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2020.