The NASCAR drivers who will shortly roar around Michigan Avenue and DuSable Lake Shore Drive in downtown Chicago were preceded by stock car racers circling a track inside Soldier Field 67 years ago. The 1956 Grand National 100-mile race, considered the first NASCAR cup series race held in Chicago, was witnessed by 14,402 fans who saw Fireball Roberts win by a car length over Jim Pascal, who .
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The first U.S. gas-powered automobile was built in 1893, some 130 years ago, by the Illinois-born Charles and Frank Duryea in Springfield, Massachusetts. The Duryea automobile had a one-cylinder, four-horsepower