Inducted into the Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., in 2019, he will be remembered as one of the giants in Chicago sports history, and his monument was the Arlington International Racecourse, the lavish state-of-the-art racetrack he built and renamed after its famous predecessor, Arlington Park, was destroyed by fire on July 31, 1985.
Dick Duchossois, the longtime owner of Arlington International Racecourse, dies at age 100
