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John Putch’s film "Route 30", which was screened in Gettysburg on September 27, will premiere in York on October 3.

Historic New Carlisle is teaming up with the Indiana Lincoln Highway Association to celebrate the original route of the Lincoln Highway through New Carlisle on Saturday, Oct. 11.

The 2008 Destination Filmfest is looking for amateur teams to write, shoot and edit a 5-to-7-minute film in a week using historic Lincoln Highway as the setting. Team preregistrations must be mailed in by Oct. 3.

The Youngville Cafe in Watkins, Iowa, a revived Lincoln Highway business, celebrated Youngville’s Apple Daze with pie, music, and Model A’s.

The Lincoln Highway Arts Festival took place on September 27 in Mount Vernon, Iowa. It featured 32 artists from across Iowa working in a wide range of media.

The Mexican Independence Festival in Rochelle, Illinois featured a parade along the Lincoln Highway.

The Plainfield Historical Society held a cemetery walk to celebrate the town’s history. One of the performances along the walk told the story of the Lincoln-Way Barber Shop, one of many businesses to incorporate "Lincoln" into their names to try to influence officials deciding on the Lincoln Highway’s route.

The 11th annual Lincoln Highway Heritage Festival takes place this year on August 22–24 in downtown Rochelle, Illinois.

Newspaper articles on the festival:

The Park Forest Historical Society [in Park Forest, Illinois] will hold kickoff its 2008-2009 program season with a program on the history of the Lincoln Highway.

The event will take place on Sunday, September 14, 2008 at 2:30 p.m. in the Village Board Meeting Room of the Park Forest Village Hall, located in Downtown Park Forest at 350 Victory Drive….

Cynthia Ogorek’s new book, The Lincoln Highway Around Chicago, published by Arcadia in March, will be featured in an "armchair tour" of the Highway from "The Ideal Section" in Schererville and Dyer, IN, to Geneva on the Fox River in Illinois.

A three-day First Inaugural Tour of Lincoln Highway in Iowa began on August 8:

According to State Director of the Iowa Lincoln Highway Association, Jeff LaFollette, this three-day tour has been in the works for the past few years. He said that the purpose of this tour is to promote the Lincoln Highway and to educate people about the road and the surrounding areas.

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