Arlington Park might look as healthy as ever on Saturday. The Arlington Million is expected to draw around 30,000 spectators to the old track in suburban Chicago to take in its marquee event and maybe ...
ON WEDNEDSAY, JULY 31, 1985, the 58-year-old main grandstand and clubhouse building at Arlington Park burned to the ground. The event was dramatic to all who witnessed any part of it. It was also ...
Anyone new to the area might have a hard time grasping what Arlington Park once meant to the Northwest suburbs. And surely, they could not imagine the impact the 1985 fire had on local officials, ...
Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. 25, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Tents dot the grounds of Arlington Park ...
As officials in Arlington Heights on Friday renewed their pitch to lure the Chicago Bears to the northwest suburbs, leaders in Gary, Indiana offered three potential sites to move the Bears across ...