In 1977, Michael Bilandic, then the mayor of Chicago and an enthusiastic runner, threw his support behind putting on a race ...

Hargrove ran his first marathon at age 15 and has since accomplished feats like running 34 marathons in 34 days throughout ...

Ruth Chepngetich of Kenya won the Chicago Marathon in 2:09:56 to break the world record by nearly two minutes.

Runners trekked across 29 of the city's neighborhoods Sunday morning, taking in some of the landmarks as they made toward the ...

Photos from the Chicago Marathon on Oct. 13, 2024. Barry Jeong high-fives a Chicago Marathon participant in Chinatown on Oct. 13, 2024. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune) Participants run through ...

Hargrove learned that someone from the U.K. had already set the record at 5 hours and 13 minutes. Determined to try again, ...

"I need my exercise, and I can't do without it, and I think the older you get, the more you need it too. Use it or lose it," ...

Runners make their way under the "L" on LaSalle Street in the first miles of the Chicago Marathon through the Loop.

Kenyan Ruth Chepngetich ran the fastest women’s marathon in history to win the Chicago Marathon on Sunday. Chepngetich, 30, clocked 2 hours, 9 minutes, 56 seconds, crushing the world record of 2:11:53 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- 50,000 athletes took over the streets of the Windy City for the 46th Bank of America Chicago Marathon on Sunday, including world-record breakers and other runners who completed ...

Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich smashed the women’s world marathon record in Chicago on Sunday, taking almost two minutes off the previous best to win the race in two hours, nine minutes and 56 seconds.