The first topic: the Chicago Grid! You see these numbers on ... it because the addresses lined up with the street numbers. So even the mile things aren’t right, the addresses are right.

Rainy conditions forced NASCAR to shorten the race in both 2023 and 2024, but both events also produced dramatic racing that ...

Just ahead of the Fourth of July, downtown Chicago will host an unprecedented NASCAR race, with drivers maneuvering through a challenging 2.2-mile course ... on the Chicago street course.

“The weather was definitely a challenge,” Julie Giese, president of NASCAR’s Chicago Street Race, said. “I think the key takeaway on that, though, is that we were able to get the event i ...

Each standard-sized block measures an eighth of a mile ... spread along the grid without a single numbering system, duplicate addresses proliferated. Chicago’s clever street system was ...

The city and the sport, whose partnership was doubted by many, became acquainted on a soggy weekend downtown. The reviews were mixed. Cars lined up in anticipation of NASCAR racing in downtown ...

The unprecedented 12-turn, 2.2-mile street race will take the Cup Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series past and through many of Chicago’s most renowned downtown landmarks during Fourth of July ...