MELROSE PARK, Ill. (CBS)-- It's a sport that has no off-season. Nearly every Thursday and Friday, every week of the year -- since 1946, in fact -- there has been harness racing at Maywood Park ...

Standarbred horses have been racing at Maywood Park, located on 1st Avenue in Melrose Park, since 1946, providing jobs for trainers, grooms, farriers and backstretch workers. “I support my ...

Maywood Park Race Course won't open next season ... And they're off, galloping toward the finished of a 69-year harness-racing run at the Melrose Park racetrack. This has been owner Duke ...

MELROSE PARK, Ill. (WLS) -- Amazon is building its biggest distribution center in the state on the site of the old Maywood Park horse racing track. The Melrose Park campus will consist of three ...

Here I sit on a beautiful Friday night, watching the harness races at Maywood Park Racetrack ... as a complete horse racing novice, don’t understand. Finally, I notice the column that lists ...

An advocacy group within Illinois’s horse-racing industry is fighting to save live racing at the financially struggling Maywood Park ... track in Chicago’s Melrose Park suburb.

MELROSE PARK, Ill. (WLS) -- The assets of a pair of long-running Chicago area harness racing tracks are being auctioned off Monday. Balmoral Park and Maywood Park's equipment will be auctioned off ...

Donation Options Search Search Search A rendering of the Chariot Logistics Center in Melrose Park. Ridgeline Property ... memorializes the site’s harness racing past. It said the operation ...