Half-marathon to run through Chicago's West Side this weekend | See street closures

Chicago OEMC reminding residents of half-marathon's road closures, parking restrictions

ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team WLS logo
Wednesday, June 3, 2026 9:11PM
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CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Bank of America Chicago 13.1 half-marathon takes place this weekend and street closures will affect Douglass, Garfield and Humboldt parks.

The race is happening on Sunday. Thousands of runners are expected to race through Chicago's West Side.

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The 13-mile course will start at 7 a.m. and finish in Garfield Park. It will travel through Douglass and Humboldt parks.

No parking zones along the course will be enforced beginning at 1 a.m. on Sunday. Street closures along the route will occur between 5:30 and 11 a.m. As runners pass points along the route, streets will reopen to allow traffic to return to normal as quickly as possible, according to Chicago's Office of Emergency Management and Communications.

The street closures will start going into effect starting Wednesday morning.

The street closures are as follows:

Street closures beginning 6 a.m. Wednesday until 5 p.m. Monday

- Music Court Drive: Hamlin Boulevard to Woodward Drive

- Woodward: Madison Street to Jackson Boulevard

- Jackson: Hamlin to Central Park Avenue

6 a.m. Saturday until 5 p.m. Sunday

- Madison: Hamlin to Central Park

11 a.m. Saturday until 11 a.m. Sunday

- McCrea Drive: Schraeder Drive to end.

- Schraeder Drive: Hamlin to Washington Boulevard

2 to 11 a.m. Sunday

- Madison: Central Park to St. Louis Avenue

- Central Park: Washington to Congress Parkway

5:30 to 9:30 a.m. Sunday

- Congress Parkway: Independence Boulevard to Central Park

- Independence: Jackson to Douglas Boulevard

- Douglas: Independence to Sacramento Drive

- Sacramento: Avenue to Roosevelt Road

- Ogden: Sacramento to California Avenue (North Service road only)

- Farrar Drive: Ogden to Sacramento

5:30 to 11 a.m. Sunday

- Hamlin: Madison to Congress

- Hamlin: Madison to Maypole Avenue

- Washington: Schraeder Drive to Hamlin

5:30 to 10:45 a.m. Sunday

- Central Park: Lake Street to Franklin Boulevard

- Conservatory Drive: Lake to Franklin

- Franklin: Central Park to Sacramento

- Sacramento: Franklin to Augusta Boulevard

- Humboldt Drive: Augusta Boulevard to North Avenue

- Division Street: Humboldt Drive to Luis Munoz Drive

- Luis Munoz Marin Drive" Humboldt Drive to Humboldt Drive

A map of complete street closures is available at chicago13point1.com/streetclosures.

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