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  2. Rita Crundwell - Wikipedia

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    Rita A. Crundwell (née Humphrey; born January 10, 1953) is the former Comptroller and Treasurer of Dixon, Illinois, from 1983 to 2012, and the admitted operator of what is believed to be the largest municipal fraud in U.S. history. She was fired in April 2012 after the discovery that she had embezzled $53.7 million from the city of Dixon for ...

  3. Balmoral Park (Illinois) - Wikipedia

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    Balmoral Park (Illinois) Balmoral Park is an equestrian facility located just south of Crete, Illinois, United States. It operated from 1926 to 2015 as a horse racing track. It reopened in 2017 as a horse show facility under the same name.

  4. Hawthorne Race Course - Wikipedia

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    Hawthorne Race Course is a racetrack for horse racing in Stickney, Illinois, near Chicago . The oldest continually run family-owned racetrack in North America, in 2009 the Horseplayers Association of North America introduced a rating system for 65 Thoroughbred racetracks in North America. Of the top ten, Hawthorne was ranked No. 8.

  5. List of U.S. state horses - Wikipedia

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    Alabama. Racking Horse. The Racking Horse is a breed of horse known for its ambling gait. The breed association is headquartered in Decatur, Alabama. 1975. [4] Florida. Florida Cracker Horse. The Florida Cracker Horse was first brought to what is now Florida in the 1500s by Spanish explorers, and it played a large part in the development of the ...

  6. Arlington Park - Wikipedia

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    Arlington Park (formerly Arlington International Racecourse) was a horse race track in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, Illinois.Called the Arlington Park Jockey Club during a period of its history, it was located adjacent to the Illinois Route 53 expressway and serviced by the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad.

  7. Illinois Racing Board - Wikipedia

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    The Illinois Racing Board (IRB) is a quasi-independent State of Illinois agency that oversees and regulates the Illinois horse racing industry, including tracks that hold race meetings where wagers can be placed. Description. As of 2021, the ICJIA derives its mission statement from the Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975.

  8. Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971

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    This ruling forced the two slaughterhouses in Texas to close. In September 2007, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld a similar ban in Illinois, causing the plant located in that state to close. However, BLM procedures do not ban the export of wild horses for sale and slaughter outside the United States.

  9. Dalecarlian horse - Wikipedia

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    Birgit Ridderstedt's mail box in Batavia, Illinois, in 1958. Dala horses were introduced to North America at the 1939 World's Fair in New York. The architects Sven Markelius and Anders Beckman chose the Dala horse because they were searching for a powerful symbol for the Swedish pavilion at the fair.

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