that's my main happy memory of midway park. - midway park reminds me of summer. - [announcer] this programpart by the chautauqua region community foundation working with donors to support the causes they care about now and into the future. and by the john r. oishei foundation, whose mission is to enhance the economic vitality and the quality of life for the buffalo niagara region. a proud sponsor of trolley park midway memories. additional funding provided by the following.

night that is when lightning strikes forced the park to close down grant park here in chicago, and that meant the race stopped midway. they were expecting to pick the race up today, but instead, in order to save the time for this race, the one that hasn't started yet, uh, the saturday rates was simply cold before those drivers. it even called that reached halfway because it was stopped saturday night for lightning and they gave it to clean custer. he was the man who had told position when that race was over. but right now you're seeing a lot of disappointed fans walk out of here. they've got expiring hotel rooms, they've got flights coming up, and some of them just are not waiting for nascar to make the call or whatever that's called to make the caller what happens if the organizers do decide to cancel out to dodge rice, but they've got a couple of options, they can negotiate with the city of chicago and try to persuade the mayor and other officials to let them do this tomorrow. but there are a number of serious problems with that. first off, the senior chicago had set aside these 2 days for these races. if not agre