Raceway Park
Raceway Park was a quarter-mile stock car race track located in Blue Island, Illinois, on 130th Street and Ashland Avenue between Western Avenue and Halsted Avenue, used for stock car races from the mid-1930s until 2000.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Burr Oak station and Calumet Sag Channel.
Burr Oak station
Railway station
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Burr Oak is a commuter rail station along the Blue Island Branch of the Metra Electric line in Blue Island, Illinois. The station is located on Burr Oak Avenue near Lincoln Street, and is 18.4 miles away from the northern terminus at Millennium Station.
Calumet Sag Channel
River
The Calumet-Saganashkee Channel, usually shortened to the Cal-Sag Channel, is a 16-mile-long drainage and shipping canal in southern Cook County, Illinois, operated by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.
Ashland/Calumet Park station
Railway station
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Ashland/Calumet Park is a commuter rail station along the Blue Island Branch of the Metra Electric line in Calumet Park, Illinois. The station is located on Ashland Avenue near 124th Street, and is 17.9 miles away from the northern terminus at Millennium Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Calumet Park and Blue Island.
Calumet Park
Village
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Calumet Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 7,025 at the 2020 census. It is a suburb of Chicago.
Blue Island
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Blue Island is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, 16 miles south of Chicago's Loop. Blue Island is adjacent to the city of Chicago and shares its northern boundary with that city's Morgan Park neighborhood.
West Pullman
Suburb
West Pullman is a neighborhood located on the far south side of the city of Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the 77 official community areas of Chicago. West Pullman is situated 1½ miles northeast of Raceway Park.
Raceway Park
- Type: Park
- Description: stock car race track in Blue Island, Illinois
- Category: motorsport racing track
- Location: Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
“Raceway Park” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Raceway Park (parke sa Estados Unidos, Illinois)”
- Cebuano: “Raceway Park”
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Highlights include Centennial Park and Calumet Park Public Library.
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