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The district collects property taxes through the village of Arlington Heights. The annual budget for 2010/2011 was a near $25,000,000. The Board of Commissioners are selected by the community, each of whom selected will serve a four-year term. Virgil K. Horath Fountain located at North School Park in Arlington Heights, IL.
This project, costing Arlington Heights and surrounding suburbs $9 million, resulted in the 50 acres (20 ha) lake. In 1990, the Arlington Heights Park District revealed plans to develop the land surrounding the lake into a park. On September 22, 1990, the land was ceremonially given to the park district by the village.
Arlington Heights is known for the former Arlington Park Race Track, home of the Arlington Million, a Breeders' Cup qualifying event; it also hosted the Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships in 2002. The village is also home to the Arlington Heights Memorial Library, which has one of the largest collections of books in the state.
The grandstand at Arlington International Racecourse, Arlington Heights, Illinois. Arlington International Racecourse was founded as Arlington Park by California businessman Harry D. "Curly" Brown who would later serve as president of Oriental Park Racetrack in Havana, Cuba. [5] The track officially opened in 1927 to 20,000 spectators.
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Arlington Park is one of two commuter railroad stations along Metra's Union Pacific Northwest Line in the village of Arlington Heights, Illinois. The station is located at 2121 West Northwest Highway ( US 14 ) and Wilke Road, within Arlington Park Race Course , and lies 24.4 miles (39.3 km) from Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago . [ 2 ]
The Activities and Recreation Center, more commonly known as the ARC, is an athletic facility at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign for current university students, members and guests. [1] According to the university, Activities and Recreation Center is "one of the country's largest on-campus recreation centers". [2]