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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Mark Guarino | WBEZ

Why critics say Lightfoot’s NASCAR deal is a wreck

NASCAR CEO Jim France with Mayor Lori Lightfoot at the announcement in July of a three-year deal, starting next year, to hold a stock car race on the lakefront. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

Race cars zooming through downtown Chicago next July will undoubtedly make Grant Park look like a scene from the next installment of the Fast and Furious franchise.

Except in this movie, “the fast” refers to the speed at which the city agreed to host a NASCAR street racing weekend and “the furious” are Chicago City Council members who say the entire deal lacks transparency or sound economic sense.

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