McCullough Speedway

It started out as a business opportunity by a group of businessmen from Watseka, Illinois in 1924. It became a great success for several years. My grandfather, Thomas James (TJ) McCullough purchased the farm on which this racetrack/speedway was located in 1930. For the next several years, TJ and Myra McCullough and their family of 6 sons and 6 daughters did everything from preparing the track, advertising the races and running the concessions. I still wish I had asked more questions of my older aunts and uncles about life during those hot summer days.

The Watseka Republican, May 22, 1941

See this post for my article, McCullough Speedway - Watseka, Illinois published in the Iroquois County Genealogical Society quarterly newsletter, The Stalker. It appears on the ICGS blog, Searching Genealogy in ... Iroquois County, Illinois.

http://oldcourthouse.blogspot.com/2016/03/mccullough-speedway-watseka-illinois.html

Hope you enjoy reading this as much as I did researching it.