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.

  • JonEFive
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      It makes more sense to do a city like Houston or Atlanta.

  • idkwhatimdoing@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    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.