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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“We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.”
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)
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—Anna Eugenia Morgan (1845–1909)