Closure of Arlington Park only accelerated the local horse racing industry s decline, where there are now fewer equines being bred on downstate farms, many have left to race in other states, and a long-anticipated racino project at Hawthorne is stalled amid financing woes.
The newly-formed Greenway Entertainment Group is ready to launch a "first-class racino destination" on 80 acres of former landfill property in Chicago's Richton Park neighborhood
The prospective track developers are looking to tweak a state law that gives Hawthorne veto power over any new track wanting to set up shop in the south suburbs.
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