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Article: * October 20: Edward Corrigan purchases.(Special Sections)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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* October 20: Edward Corrigan purchases
119 acres of land in Cicero Township and construction begins on the Hawthorne grandstand.
* May 20: Hawthorne Race Course opens with a five-race card. The feature is the Chicago Derby, a 1/4-mile race won by Brookwood, owned by Edward Corrigan. The Chicago Tribune estimates the crowd at 6,000.
* May 30: Hawthorne grandstand burns to the ground. Corrigan immediately transfers the balance of the Spring meet to nearby Harlem racetrack.
* Racing is banned in Chicago.
* May: Corrigan sells the Hawthorne grounds to Thomas Carey.
* Labor Day: Carey tries to revive racing in Chicago. A ...