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“Ducks at the Track, Super Quick 66 Gun Raffle”: Chicagoland Speedway

Illinois Ducks Unlimited’s fourth annual “Ducks at the Track, Super Quick 66 Gun Raffle” is Saturday at Chicagoland Speedway.

By  Dale Bowman
   
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I keep wanting to attend Illinois Ducks Unlimited’s “Ducks at the Track, Super Quick 66 Gun Raffle.” It just sounds like one of those big doings I should be at. Plus it is an interesting setting in Garage 1 at the Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet. (I have only been to the Speedway once, to cover a Danica Patrick news conference in a pinch for the Sun-Times.)

But again this year, I cannot make it work schedule-wise on Saturday for the fourth “Ducks at the Track.”

Hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. Admission is $25 ($30 if you wait to buy at the door). That includes admission, Super 66 Gun Raffle entry and lunch/beverage, The gun raffle starts at noon.

Go to https://www.ducks.org/illinois/events/58397/super-quick-66-gun-raffle---chicagoland-speedway for more information or contact Vicki Mandurano at (847) 553 - 7565

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