{"id":78565,"date":"2025-07-20T17:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T17:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/78565\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T17:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T17:44:09","slug":"nascar-to-remain-active-in-chicago-without-street-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/78565\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR to remain active in Chicago without street race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">NASCAR Chicago Street Race President <b>Julie Giese<\/b> said that the NASCAR Chicago office will \u201cremain open\u201d and the series \u201cpledges to remain active in its community engagement efforts\u201d following news that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/07\/19\/nascar-to-drop-chicago-street-race-for-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/07\/19\/nascar-to-drop-chicago-street-race-for-2026\/\">race will not return in 2026<\/a>. NASCAR\u2019s decision not to hold the Chicago Street Race in 2026 still leaves \u201copen the door to return on a different date\u201d in 2027. Under the terms of the original agreement, NASCAR paid the Chicago Park District a $500,000 permit fee in 2023, $550,000 in 2024 and $605,000 this year, as well as a $2 fee per admission ticket and an \u201cescalating commission for food, beverage and merchandise sold at the event.\u201d In addition to a \u201cdifferent date,\u201d the city is looking at a \u201cmore favorable financial agreement and speeding up the setup and breakdown times for the temporary race course\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/07\/18\/nascar-pause-chicago-street-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/07\/18\/nascar-pause-chicago-street-race\/\">CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 7\/18<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR Chicago Street Race President Julie Giese said that the NASCAR Chicago office will \u201cremain open\u201d and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-78565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114886807659637906","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78565","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=78565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}