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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
CST Editorial Board

Lightfoot plan to host Taste of Chicago and NASCAR on the same weekend deserves a yellow caution flag

Mayor Lightfoot announcing plans last summer to bring NASCAR racing to Chicago. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

The planned downtown NASCAR race is four months away, and it’s already causing a massive pile-up.

A group of downtown alderpersons is agitated over Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to host NASCAR racing and Taste of Chicago — two likely jam-packed events — on the same Fourth of July weekend.

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