{"id":87647,"date":"2025-07-24T03:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T03:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/87647\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T03:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T03:43:09","slug":"nascar-considering-return-to-chicagoland-speedway-in-joliet-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/87647\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Considering Return To Chicagoland Speedway In Joliet: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOLIET, IL \u2014 NASCAR is considering a return to Joliet\u2019s Chicagoland Speedway, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we currently do not have a timeline or specific series, we do hope to bring NASCAR racing back to Chicagoland Speedway at some point in the future,&#8221; a NASCAR spokesperson told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagobusiness.com\/sports\/nascar-wants-racing-back-joliets-chicagoland-speedway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crain\u2019s Chicago Business<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For many years, the racetrack, which first opened over two decades ago, hosted two NASCAR races, providing a major revenue boost to the region. In 2020, NASCAR pulled its Joliet event amid the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/07\/16\/nascar-evaluating-chicagoland-speedway-return\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sports Business Journal reported<\/a> earlier this month that NASCAR was \u201cevaluating a possible return to Chicagoland Speedway for next year,\u201d citing \u201cpeople familiar with the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR has maintained its state business license at the site, according to Crain\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JOLIET, IL \u2014 NASCAR is considering a return to Joliet\u2019s Chicagoland Speedway, according to reports. &#8220;While we currently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":87648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-87647","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\/114906150007708094","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87647","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=87647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}