On Sept. 13-14, organizers are planning a 50th anniversary celebration for Carpentersville's Meadowdale International Raceway -- a unique facility that attracted some of the nation's finest ...

Gone are the race cars, the pit crews and Meadowdale International Raceway itself, obliterated by decades of neglect and reclamation of the course (open from 1958 to 1969) for Raceway Woods Forest ...

Thanks to Linda Daro, who works tirelessly to preserve what's left of Meadowdale International Raceway, I'm sampling derelict portions of what used to be a spectacular road circuit about 40 miles ...

Frank Scarpelli, whose grandfather, Leonard Besinger, bought the land in the late 1940s and opened the Meadowdale Raceway in 1958, has been negotiating the land deal. Car clubs used the 3.2-mile ...

In 1958, 23-year-old Leonard Besinger Jr., freshly out of architecture school, was handed the task of designing Meadowdale International Raceway in Carpentersville where later that year 200,000 ...

We took a Porsche Boxster to Lynndale Farms, Meadowdale Raceway, and Wilmot Hills. Although they haven’t held races in more than a half-century, there's still life here. Turn two at Wilmot Hills ...