Nearly 27,000 runners take part in the 2025 Bank of America Shamrock Shuffle on March 23, 2025. In it’s 44th year, the annual 8K race kicks off the official Chicago outdoor season.

Ruth Chepngetich, of Kenya, wins the women's Chicago Marathon, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021, in Chicago. AP Photo/Paul Beaty Runners converged on Chicago from all 50 states and more than 100 countries to ...

“He apparently clung to the earlier view of runners as undesirables, a near-criminal element,” Andrew Suozzo writes in his history “The Chicago Marathon.” So those passionate about ...