Anthony “Andy” Granatelli, left, president of the Chicago Auto Racing Association, with a trophy to be presented to the winner of the Soldier Field stock car title on Sept. 5, 1954.

Soldier Field in Chicago was a big-time racing venue from the late 1940s to 1968. It was somewhat of an upset that Carl Kiekhaefer’s so-called “super team” didn’t do well.

The NASCAR drivers who will shortly roar around Michigan Avenue and DuSable Lake Shore Drive in downtown Chicago were preceded by stock car racers circling a track inside Soldier Field 67 years ago.

T he Chicago Bears’ Soldier Field is an iconic, historical stadium. But the Bears didn’t start in Soldier Field, nor does Soldier Field look the same as it does today as it di ...

Soldier Field is the home of the Chicago Bears … for now. The Bears moved from Wrigley Field, the famous home of Major League Baseball ’s Chicago Cubs, to Soldier Field in 1971.

The opening events of the board track midget auto race were held on June 18, 1939, in Soldier Field. The track, the largest board oval ever built at the time, was 28 feet wide, with a 6-foot ...