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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
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- A place in: The Great Marathons · 15 places
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- 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.
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