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Chicago Marathon

Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

Epic · held by 202 collectors

The Chicago Marathon is the Abbott World Marathon Majors' largest field by runner count — a 42.195-kilometre race held annually on the second Sunday of October in Grant Park along a course that makes 29 turns through Chicago's 29 neighbourhood communities, offering a geographic and cultural cross-section of the city that no other major replicates at comparable granularity. The Chicago course's specific character is its neighbourhoods: the route's turns are deliberate community visits — Chinatown at mile 22 (whose residents line the barriers seven-deep with percussion), Pilsen's Mexican community, Boystown's characteristic decoration — creating a city portrait whose diversity is experienced sequentially by 45,000 runners over the course of a 4–6 hour morning in October.

Marathon · Chicago · Lakefront · Urban · Midwest