{"id":24199,"date":"2025-07-20T17:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T17:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/24199\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T17:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T17:09:07","slug":"nascar-to-remain-active-in-chicago-without-street-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/24199\/","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 Julie Giese 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 nofollow 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 nofollow 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":2,"featured_media":24200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-24199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}