The NASCAR Chicago street race will take over the area around Grant Park the first weekend July, and Chicago's hospitality industry is hoping for a big boost.
Each day of the event, which is being held July 1 and 2, is expected to bring around 50,000 people downtown, packing the grandstands around the race route and also packing downtown hotel rooms.See the Chicago NASCAR street race course, plus street closures and parking restrictions
On the same weekend, a major girls' volleyball tournament is being held at McCormick Place, which is expected to bring in tens of thousands of additional visitors. "So if we continue that momentum, it's going to be a really good summer for Chicago hotels," said Jacobson. "So certainly very concerned about the traffic inconveniences we're going to face between June 28 And July 5, that's especially going to be just brutal downtown with that portion of Lakeshore drive downtown closed as well. So that is that is a serious concern to my residents," said 34th Ward Ald. Bill Conway.
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