A 3-mile guided running tour in the Loop about the 1968 DNC and the infamous trial of the “Chicago 7.”

An easy-paced (11:00 min/mile) guided running tour inspired by Alison Mariella Désir's memoir, Running While Black.

A 4-mile, easy-paced running tour all about the history of Chicago's infamous Union Stockyards.

A 4-Mile Running Tour in Hyde Park followed by a panel with reproductive rights activists past and present. Cover photo credit: AP

Join Read & Run Chicago and CRR19 for a 5-mile running tour in Bronzeville to commemorate the 1919 Chicago Race Riots. Register here.

Join Read & Run Chicago and Gerber/Hart for an easy-paced 3-mile running tour and post-run lecture at Vuori.

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Join Read & Run Chicago and Lemont Downtown for the second run in our series inspired by local author Pat Camalliere’s Cora Tozzi Historical Mystery Series.

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Join Read & Run Chicago for three running tours in Lemont inspired by Pat Camalliere's historical mystery series!

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Join Read & Run Chicago for an easy-paced running tour of the West Loop neighborhood!

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Join Read & Run Chicago for an easy-paced running tour of Hegewisch followed by pizza and beer!

A mouthwatering tour through Chicago's Little Italy to run and indulge in the delicious history of some of its oldest bakeries!

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Run three easy miles to Lutz Bakery and add on cookie decorating at acclaimed Bon Vivant Cakes in Albany Park.

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A 3-Mile Running Tour + In-Person Q&A with Author Rebecca Makkai Featuring Chicago's best LGBTQ Elders & Activists.

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Join Read & Run Chicago and UIC Professor Rachel Weber for a 3-mile point-to-point running tour of her book From Boom to Bubble.

Read & Run Chicago is partnering with the The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project (CRR19), A Few Red Drops author Claire Hartfield, and Lookingglass Theater for a special, one-of-a-kind running tour commemorating the 1919 Chicago Race Riot on the same day and in the same place the multi-day riots began over 100 years ago.

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Join Read & Run Chicago and author Greg Borzo for an easy-paced, 6-mile run in Lincoln Park and Old Town visiting 14 of Chicago’s most beautiful fountains!

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Join Read & Run Chicago guide Quinn Sluzenski for an easy-paced 3-mile run inspired by the 1959 lesbian pulp fiction novel The Girls in 3-B by Valerie Taylor!

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A 4-mile, easy-paced running tour of the Chicago River from Downtown to Ping Tom Park!

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A ~3.5-mile, easy-paced running tour of the Chicago River from Lathrop Homes to Goose Island!

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Join Arc'teryx and Read & Run Chicago for an easy-paced 4-mile bakery run!

Join Read & Run Chicago Guide Chelsey Grassfield for 4 easy miles along the North Branch of the Chicago River!

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Join Read & Run Chicago for an easy-paced, 4-mile run in Bridgeview inspired by Sahar Mustafah’s coming-of-age novel set in fictitious Tempest, Illinois, The Beauty of Your Face!

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Discover Chicago history spots on this Chicago Scavenger-inspired running tour with Read & Run Chicago and author Jessica Mlinaric. Event registration here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chicago-scavenger-running-tour-with-author-jessica-mlinaric-tickets-511055630147

For the 6th and final edition of this series, we'll see two of the historic canals, the Illinois & Michigan Canal (I&M) and the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal (CSSC).

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Read & Run Chicago and Graceland Cemetery present an easy 3-mile run with Adam Selzer, historian and author of Graceland Cemetery!

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In Part 5 of Read & Run Chicago's running tours along The Chicago River, we head WAY SOUTH down to Whistler Woods and Major Taylor Trail!

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Read & Run Chicago and Gerber/Hart are teaming up for a 3-mile run in the Loop inspired by Valerie Taylor’s The Girls in 3-B!

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Part 3 of our running tour series inspired by The Chicago River by Libby Hill!

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