NASCAR Cost Chicago Millions in Road Work and Overtime – South Side Weekly
NASCAR Cost Chicago Millions in Road Work and Overtime – South Side Weekly
CDOT work and police overtime for the street race add up to more than $3 million.
More overtime was credited to NASCAR than any other special event so far this summer except the Pride Parade, for which officers were credited with 31,297 hours. The 2023 Pride Parade crowd estimate was nearly a million people; NASCAR projected it would attract about 100,000 attendees over the course of the weekend.
The move to bring Nascar to Chicago is just so dumb. The kind of people who care about Nascar don't live in Chicago, nor do they want to come to Chicago given the media narrative, and the people who live in Chicago do not care about Nascar. Another boondoggle for our great city.
It makes more sense to do a city like Houston or Atlanta.
Houston and Atlanta have way more reasons not to host NASCAR.
It was inconvenient and in some ways poorly executed, but I am absolutely not upset about it being the first thing to prompt significant road repairs in years.