Collinsville horse track opening with cloudy future
As the 94th season at Fairmount Park arrives, track president Brian Zander wants to be confident. The park, in Collinsville, opens Tuesday at 1 p.m. and will run through Sept. 14 with a Tuesday and Saturday schedule. Zander has no reason to believe that will change. An unsuccessful battle to bring slot machines and video gaming to Illinois race tracks continues to make the future tenuous. But Zander, who has been on the job since 1986, has been through this for more years than he'd like to remember. "I think for 2019 that we're going to be OK," he said. "Beyond that, it's really hard to say."