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...

Column: How to cope with injury

By Nicole Radziszewski

May 8, 2019 at 11:57 a.m.

Nine years ago, my plans to run the Chicago Marathon were halted when I found...

Shout Out: Tim Carter, new program coordinator at Ela Township near Lake Zurich

By Todd Shields

May 23, 2019 at 6:01 p.m.

With an eye toward expanding programs for elderly residents, Tim Carter recently started as the...

Students take a spin at Flywheel in Playa Vista.

Get moving with these 5 unique fitness classes in Chicago this weekend: May 4-7

By Shelbie Lynn Bostedt

May 9, 2019 at 8:02 a.m.

With better weather (hopefully) on the way, you have options: Run under the sun or...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

What to see and hear at Bach Week Festival

By John Von Rhein

May 13, 2019 at 2:10 p.m.

One of the most venerable of Midwest festivals devoted to the works of Johann Sebastian...

Family Dental Care wins third Neighbors’ Choice Award

By Contributed Content

June 5, 2018 at 4:19 a.m.

Family Dental Care attributes its growth and the honor of the Neighbors' Choice Award to...

Waukegan mayoral candidate Lisa May talks to a voter after a forum hosted by Waukegan High School AP government students on March 22.

Waukegan mayoral race: Lisa May casts herself as the ‘true change’ candidate

By Luke Hammill

May 23, 2019 at 11:53 p.m.

This is the final story in a series of profiles on Waukegan's mayoral candidates. Growing...

Warren Utes, took up running at 60 and set age group records, dies

By Joan Giangrasse Kates

June 5, 2018 at 5:51 p.m.

Warren Utes was approaching 60, not eating healthy and spending much of his free time...

One of the Run to the Pub organizers, Chris Roth, holds up an item that was raffled off during a Run to the Pub event at Clancy's Pub, Thursday, February 23, 2017, in Oak Lawn. (Vincent D. Johnson-Daily Southtown).

Pub runs: Workouts with a chaser

By Vickie Jurkowski

May 22, 2019 at 12:19 p.m.

A "beer run" used to mean out the door for cold ones to carry home....

Kevin Edwards (center) played two years of basketball at DePaul and 11 years in the NBA. Now, Edwards lives in Lake Forest and has two children who are college athletes.

Q&A: Former DePaul basketball star, Lake Forest resident Kevin Edwards

By Bobby Narang

June 5, 2018 at 9:56 p.m.

Standing underneath the basket Monday at Allstate Arena before DePaul's basketball game against No. 2...

Pedestrians, bikers and runners often comingle along the Lakefront Trail, like here around the Oak Street Beach curve, sometimes with disasterous results.

Creating separate bike, pedestrian lakefront paths may be tricky in spots

By Mary Wisniewski

May 23, 2019 at 4:18 a.m.

It won't be as tough as reversing the flow of the Chicago River, or raising...