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...

John Becklenberg of Dyer holds a photo of his late wife Mary Ann, who died Sept. 20 after the couple's 11-year endeavor with Alzheimer's disease.

Christmas memories: ‘Tragic yet beautiful’

By Jerry Davich

June 8, 2018 at 2:00 p.m.

"Memories light the corners of my mind. Misty water-colored memories... of the way we were."...

Shopping at Target to support LGBTQ rights? Go a step further

By Heidi Stevens

May 16, 2019 at 3:48 a.m.

I'm all for LGBTQ rights, and I'm all for spending copious amounts of money at...

Candidates campaign high, low looking for votes weekend before Election Day

By Katherine Skiba

May 15, 2019 at 3:58 p.m.

Politicians spent Sunday campaigning from the heights of Willis Tower to the streets of southern...

Guest service ambassadors walk between seats before the Chicago Cubs play the Cleveland Indians in Game 3 of the World Series.

Days off canceled for cops as police prepare for World Series crowds

By Jeremy Gorner

May 22, 2019 at 10:39 p.m.

The Chicago Police Department has canceled days off for the vast majority of its 12,000...

Runners receive a cool water spray as they participate in the Bank of America Chicago Marathon on Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016.

Do the math: Our big problem with numbers

By Mark Iris

May 11, 2019 at 3:48 a.m.

No, I'm not talking about how to perform mathematical operations — although that too is...

Queen bee syndrome? ‘In the Company of Women’ debunks myth

By Heidi Stevens

May 16, 2019 at 3:47 a.m.

There's a pernicious and pervasive myth that women cling tightly to their success, shielding the...

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>

Christy Turlington, Rob Riggle finish Chicago Marathon

By Tracy Swartz

May 23, 2019 at 11:16 a.m.

Supermodel-turned-activist Christy Turlington said her "old legs didn't hold me back" as she logged a...

Secret Service personnel keep watch on the rooftop of McCormick Place as Marine One lands in the Soldier Field parking lot on Oct. 7, 2016. President Barack Obama visited Chicago on Friday to attend a fundraiser luncheon for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Obama calls Trump ‘insecure’ over remarks the president won’t repeat

By Kim Geiger

August 21, 2019 at 8:27 p.m.

President Barack Obama on Sunday waded into the firestorm over newly surfaced remarks made by...

2016 Chicago Marathon results

By baiduhai

May 12, 2019 at 1:17 p.m.

The top times for the 2016 Chicago Marathon on Sunday, Oct. 9. Men's top 5...

Runners, spectators converge in Chicago for marathon

By Tony Briscoe

June 9, 2018 at 12:22 p.m.

At 40 years old and looking forward to the birth of a granddaughter, Tom O'Day...