I was there for it as a kid. Our extended family was scattered in Valparaiso, Indiana, Chicago, Idaho (north and south), Albuquerque, and Fort Worth. We drove that giant loop every couple of years when I was from 4 to 16 years old! I remember well the construction messes of the interstate system and read about all the “urban renewal” that was triggered when tenements were torn down to build the highways.
I saw entire neighborhoods removed and remember many newspaper articles of old school stubborn people resisting the loss of their properties with guns at the gates and the media being sympathetic to them, it had to happen but some of the old American cussedness was still respected.