Auto racing historian Jerry Murawski will give a historical presentation on Hammond's Roby Speedway on Saturday, May 1 at the Hammond Public Library.

Murawski, a Chicago Heights, Ill. resident, has spent years researching and documenting the one-mile dirt speedway, which operated between 1920 and 1936.  The track was located west of Indianapolis Boulevard, bordered by 108^th Street on the north, 112^th Street on the south and Avenue A to the west, just east of the Hammond/Chicago border.

Part of a threesome of horse racing tracks built in the late 1800s in the Hammond/Whiting area, the Roby track became a popular Midwestern auto racing facility in the 1920s and '30s with numerous drivers testing their skills on the mile raceway with many of them eventually competing in the Indianapolis 500.

The library is at 564 State St. in Hammond.  The free presentation is at 2 p.m. For more information, call (219) 923-1475.