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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

Start your engines: Lightfoot gives NASCAR green flag for three years of races through streets of Chicago

NASCAR Chicago Brendan Reilly 42nd Pat Dowell 3rd Administration Brian Hopkins Lori Lightfoot SunTimes City Council South DuSable Lake Shore Drive
Stock cars set up in downtown Chicago in advance of the announcement Tuesday that NASCAR will hold a race in the city each year for three years, starting in 2023. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

Chicago’s most iconic roadways — including DuSable Lake Shore Drive, Michigan Avenue and Columbus Drive — will be turned into a 12-turn, 2.2-mile showcase for the first street course race in NASCAR’s 75-year history.

Tuesday’s announcement came more than 40 years after then-Mayor Jane Byrne proudly unveiled plans for a Chicago Grand Prix race that would have run through the streets of Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend in 1981.

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