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After months of planning, weeks of disruption and an 11th-hour push to complete the transformation of Grant Park into a pop-up NASCAR track, ready or not, the inaugural Chicago Street Race has arrived. The July Fourth weekend event is expected to draw 50,000 fans, generate nearly $114 million in economic impact and provide hours of national TV coverage to burnish Chicago’s image as a gleaming .
From the first announcement in July 2022, former Mayor Lori Lightfoot and city officials assured residents a first-of-its-kind NASCAR Street Race would boost.
The Chicago Street Course is rising fast along the city’s lakefront, but NASCAR is racing the clock to get it done by the inaugural July Fourth weekend event. Temporary grandstands, concrete barriers and fencing have sprung up on parts of the course in and around Grant Park, facilitated by rolling street closures. But a concerted effort to keep roads open as long as possible to minimize .
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