{"id":32835,"date":"2025-07-24T03:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T03:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/32835\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T03:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T03:58:07","slug":"nascar-considering-return-to-chicagoland-speedway-in-joliet-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/32835\/","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":2,"featured_media":32836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-32835","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\/32835","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=32835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}