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The Illinois State Fair mile currently hosts the Allen Crowe Memorial 100 ARCA stock car race, USAC Silver Crown dirt cars, UMP Late Models and Modifieds and the A.M.A. Grand National Championship. The only driver who has won races in three disciplines of racing in Ken Schrader who won in ARCA cars (1998), UMP Modifieds (1998), and midgets.
Langley also hosts Hampton Roads Kart Club races on most Sundays and some Fridays during the season, Wacky Wednesday which allows anyone with a helmet and a street legal car to participate in the time attack, burnout competition, and one on one drag races on most Wednesday nights during the season, the Langley Drift Club which helped bring ...
Springfield is the capital city of the U.S. state of Illinois.Its population was 114,394 at the 2020 United States census, which makes it the state's seventh-most populous city, [10] the second-most populous outside of the Chicago metropolitan area (after Rockford), and the most populous in Central Illinois.
From 1876 until 1966, the Old State Capitol was the county courthouse of Sangamon County.During this time the building was extensively altered. In 1839, a two-floor building had been large enough to hold the entire governmental structure of Illinois; but after continued growth in the population of Springfield and the surrounding townships, in 1898-1899 Sangamon County raised the historic ...
Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in Springfield, Illinois" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In February 2000, the former Mahan's Station, rumored to be the oldest filling station in Illinois, was moved 21 miles to its current location at Fulgenzi's. It has since been fully restored. [ 2 ] The museum's guestbook boasts visitors from all over Europe and Asia and has become a destination for international travelers exploring the Mother ...
G45 Central – website and blog which conducts discussions on various topics related to garage rock; Garage Hangover – garage bands of the 1960s by state, province and country; GS – covers the group sounds ("G.S.") garage/beat boom in Japan; It's Psychedelic Baby! Magazine – articles, interviews, and reviews of 60s psychedelic and garage ...
January 1901 Illinois Central advertisement promoting their new Chicago–Springfield–St. Louis through route. Springfield Union Station was designed in the Richardson Romanesque style in 1896 as a combined passenger terminal for several railroads serving Springfield, including the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Railroad, Illinois Central Railroad, and the St ...