50K athletes run in 2024 Bank of America Chicago Marathon
CHICAGO (WLS) -- It's the day athletes have spent hundreds if not thousands of hours training for. The 2024 Bank of America Chicago Marathon.
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50,000 athletes will run through 29 of Chicago's neighborhoods on Sunday.
The race will start and finish in Grant Park.
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Many athletes are also running to support different charities.
In fact, just last year more than $30 million were raised collectively by runners for more than 200 organizations.
The first wave of athletes takes off just at 7:30 a.m.
Cris Colon, a Chicago firefighter said he is running the 2024 Chicago Marathon to raise money for fallen fireghters.
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Last year, Kelvin Kiptum finished the marathon in 2:00:35 with an overall pace of 2:52 minutes per kilometer
He broke the marathon world record. Sadly, Kiptum was killed in a car crash in Kenya in February.
There will be a moment of silence before the race kicks off to honor Kiptum.
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