Join us for Read & Run Chicago’s End-of-Year Celebration on Wednesday, December 3! We’re inviting everyone who made 2025 a year to remember — authors, runners, volunteers, sponsors, guides, venues, partners, and more.

Join Cynthia from Read & Run Chicago for our monthly Move + Book Swap—a meetup designed to bring book lovers together.

Join Read & Run Chicago guide Courtney Ruhland for a three-mile run through Rogers Park, one of the city’s most diverse neighborhoods, as we bring to life Elly Fishman’s award-winning book Refugee High and fundraise for the Hyde Park Refugee Project.

Calling all Read & Run Chicago volunteers and guides!

Join Read & Run Chicago founder Allison Yates for a relaxing evening of socializing and 30-minute yoga with Grace McGann.

Spend an afternoon learning about one of Chicago’s most iconic buildings, the former Morton Salt warehouse, now transformed into the Salt Shed, one of the city’s most beloved new music venues.

Love Chicago food? Then you’ll love this six-mile Fun Run or three-mile walk inspired by David Hammond and Monica Eng’s deliciously delightful book, Made in Chicago: Stories Behind 30 Great Hometown Bites!

Join us for a spooky, season-appropriate run into the chilling world of the Summerdale trilogy with author David Jay Collins!

Join Cynthia and Cat from Read & Run Chicago for our monthly Move + Book Swap—a meetup designed to bring book lovers together.

Join Read & Run Chicago guide Betsy and author David Jay Collins at Half Acre Beer Co.’s Reads & Records Fair!

Read & Run Chicago's October Book Club Run is inspired by the poetry of Chicago legend, Gwendolyn Brooks--and our post-run discussion is FREE and open to all!

Join Read & Run Chicago and Black Girls Read Book Club on a guided running tour of one of Chicago's most celebrate poets!

Join Read & Run Chicago, New Balance, Fleet Feet Chicago, and Olympian Meb Keflezighi for a shakeout run in the Loop!

Join Read & Run Chicago at our October reading night at Passages Wine and Books!

Cheering is an endurance sport of its own—and no spectator is complete without a creative, unexpected bookish sign in hand. Join Read & Run Chicago and Family Style RC for a Marathon Sign-Making Party as we get ready to support runners in the 2025 Bank of America Chicago Marathon.

Join Read & Run Chicago at New Book Joy in Edgebrook to celebrate the second edition of Lindsay Welbers’s guidebook, Chicago Transit Hikes!

Make sure our Bank of America Chicago Marathon readers & runners stay safe as they tackle 26.2! Join us to flyer the cars along the marathon route.

Join Read & Run Chicago and Garbage Gals for our September Move + Book Swap, this month in Andersonville!

Join Read & Run Chicago founder Allison Yates and guide Chris Smith at the Bronzeville Farmer’s Market for an easy-paced (12:00 minute/mile) three-mile run in historic Bronzeville, followed by a book discussion of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson in collaboration with Urban Canopy.

Are you dog-loving reader & runner? Look no further than this super special dog-themed Read & Run Chicago event! Even if your dog tends to skip to the tail end of the story, they’ll still love the photoshoot, pup treats, and more!

Join us to write postcards to the Read & Run Chicago community members racing the Chicago 26.2!

Celebrate Gerber/Hart Library & Archives’s second season of the podcast Unboxing Queer History with this pre-launch running tour around Lakeview tracing the lost Lesbian bars.

Join Read & Run Chicago at CARA’s Ready to Run Aid Station #3 at Belmont Harbor and cheer on our fellow readers & runners!

Read the YA novel Death in the Cards and run a 4-mile guided run to bring the book to life, followed by Q&A with author and tarot readings!

​Photo credit: Jamilla Yipp Photography

Join Read & Run Chicago founder Allison and community lead Cynthia at Fleet Feet Lincoln Square from 5-7pm for a Fall 2025 kickoff happy hour with cookies, beer, a FREE running photoshoot, and more! RSVP required.

Join Read & Run Chicago and Books with Betsy for a casual outdoor reading gathering at Montrose Harbor!

Join Read & Run Chicago founder Allison Yates for a fun evening of outdoor reading at Wild Mile, the world’s first-ever floating eco-park.

Join Read & Run Chicago at The Plant for an evening of outdoor reading and an optional 1-mile run. Bring a book, a donation for the Love Fridge, and something to sit on.

We’re saying thank you to our Summer 2025 members with a private running tour with author Greg Borzo inspired by his book, Chicago’s Fabulous Fountains!

Join Read & Run Chicago, Electric Athletic Club, and Vuori Southport for a special edition of Move + Book Swap, Read & Run Chicago’s monthly meetup that brings fellow book lovers together.