Highlights
Live competition at historic course with a slate of races; food credits and wagers included
About This Deal
The Deal
$35 for a lunch buffet package (up to $80 value)
- Admission and program
- Saturday Buffet with unlimited coffee and soda
- $20 Hawthorne gift
- Reserved seating at a private table
- $10 in wagers when you sign up for Club Hawthorne
Fine Print
About Hawthorne Race Course
On May 20, 1891, an estimated 6,000 people attended the first-ever Opening Day at Hawthorne Race Course in Stickney, Illinois. The event featured the Chicago Derby—a quarter-mile race won by a horse named Brookwood. Since that day, the family-owned facility—celebrating over 125 years in business—has thrilled Chicago-area racing fans season after season with live competition and full-card simulcasting. The track hosts standardbred harness racing in January and the summer months, while thoroughbred racing dominates the rest of the year. But it hasn't always been easy. In 1905, for instance, racing was banned in Chicago for more than 15 years after several of the facility's horses became mired in a political scandal. And Hawthorne Race Course itself has had to overcome its fair share of adversity, including two fires, but continues to enthrall thousands of fans each year.