Chicago Marathon

Ana Jordan picks up her takeout order from a delivery robot at BellyBowl in Bridgeport, Oct. 8, 2026. The marathon drives business for BellyBowl. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Local businesses run their own marathon ahead of Sunday’s race

By Jane Miller

October 10, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Runners aren't the only ones going the distance on Sunday. For local businesses, the marathon...

Participants finish the Chicago Marathon on Columbus Avenue in Grant Park on Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. (Dominic Di Palermo/baiduhai)

Chicago Marathon 2026: Course map, tips for spectators and participants — and how to drive downtown (or avoid it)

By Kori Rumore

October 9, 2026 at 2:25 p.m.

The Chicago Marathon's 26.2-mile course is flat, fast and ready to welcome more than 55,000...

Kelvin Kiptum celebrates his Chicago Marathon world record victory, 2:00:35, with Bank of America Chicago Marathon Executive Race Director Carey Pinkowski, left, in Chicago’s Grant Park on Oct. 8, 2023. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Today in Chicago History: Kenya’s Kelvin Kiptum sets a world record in the Chicago Marathon

By Kori Rumore

October 8, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 8, according...

A happy finisher of the 40th bank of America Chicago Marathon. Thousands of runners start the 40th annual Bank of America Chicago Marathon onOct. 8, 2017 in Chicago.

Top American runners returning for 2018 Chicago Marathon

By Shannon Ryan

May 31, 2019 at 4:39 p.m.

Galen Rupp, who last year became the first American man to win the Chicago Marathon...

Fred Steiner, 72, heads off for the 5K run at Independence Grove in Libertyville.

Despite rain, hundreds turn out for Foodie 5K in Libertyville

By Denys Bucksten

May 15, 2019 at 1:27 p.m.

With steady rainfall before and after the Northern Illinois Food Bank's Foodie 5K, 443 of...

Darien pastor organizes runners to raise funds for clean water

By Hank Beckman

May 22, 2019 at 5:26 p.m.

The web site of the nonprofit World Vision maintains the average distance to obtain water...

Bernard Carey, a former Cook County state's attorney who won office as a reform Republican in the wake of the 1969 police raid that killed Illinois Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton and who helped kick off the judicial corruption probe, Operation Greylord, died of stomach cancer on June 1, 2018, in Naples, Fla. He was 83. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-bernard-carey-obituary-20180604-story.html" target="_blank">Read more</a>.

Chicago chef Judson Todd Allen, who called himself ‘architect of flavor,’ dies at 36 of apparent heart attack

By Elvia Malagon

May 23, 2019 at 12:48 a.m.

A Chicago-area chef who once appeared on the Food Network and dubbed himself the "architect...

Shout Out: Jordan Leasure and Jade Dellinger, Libertyville chiropractors

By Pioneer Press

May 15, 2019 at 1:27 p.m.

Sisters Jordan Leasure and Jade Dellinger are chiropractors who operate North Shore Pro-Active Health in...

Volumes Bookcafe in Wicker Park is participating in the My Chicago Bookstore crawl Saturday.

Rest up, readers. Independent Bookstore Day is upon us, and it’s the best sort of exhausting

By Heidi Stevens

May 16, 2019 at 4:01 a.m.

Saturday is the Chicago Marathon for readers. The Bud Billiken Parade for bookstores. The Taste...

Boston Marathon is last leg on Naperville man’s 50-state quest

By Suzanne Baker

May 16, 2019 at 6:21 a.m.

John Fisher is a late bloomer when it comes to running marathons. When he crossed...

Laura Phillips runs on the lakefront path at Northwestern accompanied by her husband, NU athletic director Jim Phillips, on April 12, 2018, in Evanston. Laura Phillips qualified to run in the Boston Marathon on April 16.

Laura Phillips — wife of Northwestern AD Jim Phillips and mom of five — to tackle Boston Marathon

By Shannon Ryan

May 31, 2019 at 4:34 p.m.

Along the 26.2 miles of the Chicago Marathon route, Laura Phillips spotted the sign: "Nothing...

Man’s 2017 death in struggle with guards the latest red flag for Chicago private security firm

By Elyssa Cherney

May 23, 2019 at 12:34 a.m.

Donnell Burns was shirtless, handcuffed and facedown on the pavement outside of a Walmart on...

Wheeling resident Dannielle "Danni" Allen before and after she won Season 14 of "The Biggest Loser."

How this ‘Biggest Loser’ winner from Mundelein found a ‘healthy, happy weight’

By Tracy Swartz

May 23, 2019 at 11:31 a.m.

Five years after winning “The Biggest Loser,” Evanston’s Danni Allen is still making the gym...