Hawthorn Race Course's Tom Carey, who helped guide rebuild after 1978 fire, has died at 87
Tom Carey, a high school and college football standout who went on to lead Hawthorne Race Course for 30 years, died Tuesday at 87. The fourth of five generations in the century-plus family business, he steered the Cicero horse track through declining revenues as lotteries and casinos expanded. And he helped to rebuild it after a disastrous fire in 1978 destroyed the grandstand.
