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Labor Day fun hitched to harness racing
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Yes, there's a sport that's 100 percent American, and baseball
is not its name. The sport that's pure Americana is harness racing,
and this Labor Day weekend, you can see it at the La Salle County
Fair in Mendota, the Ogle County Fair in Oregon and at Sportsman's
Park in Cicero.
"It's one sport that's not going second-class in Chicago," says
Mike Paradise, public relations director of Sportsman's Park.
It all began on the backroads of New England in the 1700s.
Farmers had d...
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