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Park District’s Gleaming New Track and Field Center Now Named for Conrad Worrill, the Man Who Dreamed It Into Existence
Feb 17, 2022
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Patty Wetli
The Chicago Park District’s state-of-the art track and field center at Gately Park in Pullman, which opened in 2021, owes its existence to decades of pushing and prodding by the late Conrad Worrill. Now it’s named for him.
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