Arrows Direct Motorists To Arlington Park Track: Course Easily Accessible, Being Located on Northwest Highway, Daily Racing Form, 1941-06-21

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ARROWS DIRECT MOTORISTS TO ARLINGTON PARK TRACK TRACKCourse Course Easily Accessible Being Located on Northwest Highway HighwayThe The familiar red and yellow direction ar ¬ rows pointing to Arlington Park are making their appearance on highways in the north and west section of Chicagoland as the big Northwest Side track prepares for its thifly fourday race meeting opening Monday June 23 and extending to July 31 Extremely heavy traffic is anticipated on July 4 for the Stars and Stripes Handicap on July 12 for the Arlington Futurity and on July 26 for the famous Arlington Classic ClassicThe The track is located threequarters of a mile northwest of Arlington Heights on Northwest Highway U S 14 Perhaps the easiest route to follow to Arlington from downtown Chicago is on U S 12 via the Outer Drive to the intersection with U S 14 in Park Ridge and thence on U S 14 direct to the track An alternate is to fol ¬ low U S 41 the Skokie Highway over the same route from downtown and remain on 41 to Golf Road 111 58 and west on Golf Road to Route 14 theNorthwest Highway HighwayWIDE WIDE CHOICE OF ROUTES ROUTESThe The multiplicity of good paved roads in the northwest section of the county gives a wide choice of routes to the popular race track North siders may take any through street to Foster Peterson Touhy or Demp ¬ ster streets and then go west to Rand Road U S 12 Northwest Highway U S 14 or Higgins Road 111 72 The Arlington arrows along the roads will guide them to the track trackWest West siders and south siders can avoid much traffic by going directly west on any through road to Harlem Avenue 111 42 River Road Mannheim Road U S 45 or 111 83 formerly 111 54 All of these roads connect with Route 72 and Algonquin Road 111 62 from either of which the arrows will guide the motorist to the track over Arlington Heights road roadResidents Residents of the southern suburbs of Cook County and of Indiana will find that Route 83 gives them a fine course around all of Chicagos traffic


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