Arlington Park racecourse reopened Thursday with restrictions amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and its weekend events quickly sold out. It was a sad day in Arlington Heights when the news finally came down, Arlington Heights Mayor Thomas Hayes said. Certainly I think it was a foregone conclusion from the business perspective of Churchill Downs that they were going to put the track up for sale at some point.
Hayes told the Daily Herald there s a number of potential redevelopment options for the facility that fall under the heading of mixed-use.