Hawthorne Race Course is a race track for horse racing in Stickney/Cicero, Illinois, near Chicago.
The oldest continually-run family-owned racetrack in North America, in 2009 the Horseplayers Association of North America introduced a rating system for 65 Thoroughbred racetracks in North America. Of the top Ten, Hawthorne was ranked #8.
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