{"id":259331,"date":"2025-09-27T18:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/259331\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T18:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:02:13","slug":"chicago-half-marathon-5k-kicks-off-sunday-along-the-lakefront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/259331\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Half Marathon, 5K kicks off Sunday along the lakefront"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                   CBS News Live <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/keyart-chicago-1920x1080.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/live\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          CBS News Chicago<\/p>\n<p>          Live<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Life Time Chicago Half Marathon and 5K steps off on Sunday along Chicago&#8217;s lakefront. Here&#8217;s what you need to know.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 28th annual race will include runners from all 50 states and 41 countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Half Marathon starts at 7 a.m. and the 5K race will start at 7:45 a.m. Both races will start on East Hayes Drive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Kids Run will start at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The half-marathon will start in Jackson Park. Runners will head south on DuSable Lake Shore Drive. You can find a full <a href=\"https:\/\/lifetime.widen.net\/s\/n96fg8gccm\/evma_2025_halchi_course-map_half\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">course map here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Race organizers recommend the following viewing spots for anyone cheering on a runner:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>East 47th St. (parking lot nearby)<\/li>\n<li>East Oakwood Boulevard<\/li>\n<li>East 31st St\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Spectators can line up on either side of S Richards Dr., just south of the statue of The Golden Lady.,\u00a0 to watch athletes approach the finish line, organizers said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/elyssa-kaufman\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elyssa  Kaufman<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Elyssa is a digital news producer for CBS Chicago. She covers breaking news and manages the station&#8217;s social media presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News Live CBS News Chicago Live The Life Time Chicago Half Marathon and 5K steps off on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":259332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,27816],"class_list":{"0":"post-259331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-marathon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115277578513905279","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259331","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=259331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}