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, a ...

Maywood Park Racetrack, just 17 miles from downtown Chicago, stands on what used to be the cook county fair grounds. The track is recognized as one of the safest and fastest in North America.

MELROSE PARK, Ill. (WLS) -- It's the end of an era for Illinois harness racing, as Maywood Park held its final race before closing Friday night. Horses have been racing here since 1946, ...

Maywood Park is living up to its reputation of being one of the fastest harness tracks in North America.In seven of the standardbred divisions, the swiftest clockings at a half- mile track this ...

Lawmakers canceled a public hearing that was scheduled for Wednesday in Chicago on legislation that would prevent the permanent closing of the Balmoral Park and Maywood Park race tracks.

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 ...

Bankrupt and without racing dates for 2016, Maywood Park held its last harness race on Friday night. Maywood Park ushered in parimutuel betting on standardbred racing in Illinois in 1946 and, over ...

The Illinois Harness Horseman’s Association is fighting a court battle against racetrack officials, who are proposing to cancel harness horse races after Oct. 3, arguing that the closure would ...

The Illinois Racing Board, over the strong objections of horsemen groups, approved an application from Maywood Park July 25 to act as its own Advance Deposit Wagering licensee.