{"id":125779,"date":"2025-08-07T07:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T07:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/125779\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T07:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T07:46:13","slug":"the-chicago-ducky-derby-brings-100000-rubber-ducks-to-the-chicago-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/125779\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chicago Ducky Derby Brings 100,000 Rubber Ducks to the Chicago River"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back again this summer, the Chicago Ducky Derby<\/a> is set to make a massive, albeit quirky, impact: Tomorrow, thousands of little yellow rubber ducks will be dumped into the Chicago River\u2014100,000 to be exact\u2014beginning at the historic Columbus Drive Bridge.<\/p>\n

The annual rubber duck race,\u00a0held in benefit of the Special Olympics Illinois, will begin at Pioneer Court on Thursday, August 7 at 10am, with the beloved\u00a0Splash Down festival to kick off promptly at 1pm. Bring your camera and sense of adventure to support this worthy cause.<\/p>\n

RECOMMENDED: Chicago’s Secret River shows are back under the Belmont Avenue bridge this summer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

If you\u2019d rather do more than be a spectator, you can make an even bigger impact by “adopting” a duck. Each yellow buddy starts at $10 and can be adopted individually or in larger packages on the day of the race in person at Pioneer Court at 401 North Michigan Avenue until 12:50pm, while supplies last.<\/p>\n

The Quack Pack is $30 and includes six ducks, the Ducky Dozen includes 12 ducks and costs $60, the Flock of Ducks includes 24 ducks and costs $120, and the Diamond Duck Pack includes 240 ducks and costs $1,200. So far, nearly 63,000 ducks have been purchased, and those dollars will go to raising funds and\u00a0awareness for the very deserving Special Olympics Illinois athletes. (Click here<\/a>\u00a0to adopt a yellow rubber duck or to purchase fun t-shirts, supporting the event.)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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And, yes, there are prizes if your ducky wins! Among the goodies is a Chevy Trailblazer SUV, promoted by Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana Chevy Dealers. Other winnings include a $2,500 cash prize via Wintrust Financial and four coveted premium W Club Chicago Cubs tickets for the Cubs versus Cardinals season finale game at Wrigley Field on September 28. These are high stakes ducks!<\/p>\n

Good to know: Race Day parking is available at the Theatre District Self Park at 181 North Dearborn; you can snag a parking discount here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back again this summer, the Chicago Ducky Derby is set to make a massive, albeit quirky, impact: Tomorrow,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":125780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[10336,960,5386,1818,30302,1072],"class_list":{"0":"post-125779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-categories-things-to-do","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-news-weird-wonderful","13":"tag-things-to-do"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114986377757811257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}