Atlas — the interactive world
the Moon · Ocean · Explore · All time · 0 of 37 located marks in focus · editorial corpus · no live source connected
route
Close ✕Chicago Marathon
First run on 25 September 1977 as the Mayor Daley Marathon, named for Richard J. Daley, who had backed the idea and died in office the previous December.
41.9, -87.6 · route · 1977 – present, annual
On the world
- A place in: The Great Marathons · 15 places
Lines mark links and orders the records assert; no path between any two places is recorded, and none is drawn.
Connections · 3 of 4
- located in Chicago — The course is a loop starting and finishing in Grant Park on the Chicago lakefront.
- is comparable to of Berlin Marathon — Both are flat, low-turn, city-centre courses with near-zero net drop, and between them they held the men's world record continuously from 1998 to 2026.
- member of Abbott World Marathon Majors — One of the five founding races of the series announced on 23 January 2006.
Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld pending verification) · 865 unlocated · No relief basemap · marks drawn only from sourced coordinates