Raceway Park

Raceway Park was a quarter-mile stock car race track located in , on 130th Street and Ashland Avenue between Western Avenue and Halsted Avenue, used for stock car races from the mid-1930s until 2000.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Burr Oak station and Calumet Sag Channel.

Railway station
Burr Oak is a commuter rail station along the Blue Island Branch of the Metra Electric line in . The station is located on Burr Oak Avenue near Lincoln Street, and is 18.4 miles away from the northern terminus at .

River
The Calumet-Saganashkee Channel, usually shortened to the Cal-Sag Channel, is a 16-mile-long drainage and shipping canal in southern , operated by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.

Railway station
Ashland/Calumet Park is a commuter rail station along the Blue Island Branch of the Metra Electric line in . The station is located on Ashland Avenue near 124th Street, and is 17.9 miles away from the northern terminus at .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Calumet Park and Blue Island.

Village
is a village in , United States. The population was 7,025 at the 2020 census. It is a suburb of .

is a city in , United States, 16 miles south of . is adjacent to the city of and shares its northern boundary with that city's neighborhood.

Suburb
is a neighborhood located on the far south side of the city of Chicago, . It is one of the 77 official community areas of Chicago. is situated 1½ miles northeast of Raceway Park.

Raceway Park

Latitude
41.65698° or 41° 39′ 25″ north
Longitude
-87.65921° or 87° 39′ 33″ west
Elevation
597 feet (182 metres)
Open location code
86HJM84R+Q8
Geo­Names ID
4907039
Wiki­data ID
Q7279043
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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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