Plans for Mokena go-kart track accelerate

Photo courtesy of Accelerate Indoor Speedway

Plans for what would be the southwest suburbs’ first indoor go-kart track featuring electric go-karts are racing ahead.

Mokena officials last month approved a special use permit for Accelerate Indoor Speedway, a proposed 75,000-square-foot facility that also would have a restaurant, arcade and private party rooms.

Two brothers who are principals of the company that would operate Accelerate are Southland natives, and they have seven similar tracks in other parts of the country that feature electric carts…Please click here to read Mike Nolan’s story in the Tribune/Daily Southtown.