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Race For a Ride

Chicago, Illinois, United States View on map
Aug 09, 2026 (America/Chicago local time)
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About this race

🏃‍♀️ Race 4 A Ride: 5K Benefitting Archer Smith! 

Join us for a fun-filled family 5K to help provide a wheelchair-accessible van for Archer and his family! Come walk, run, or roll with us as our community comes together to celebrate an incredible kid whose strength, smile, and spirit inspire everyone around him. Your participation and support will help give his family the gift of freedom, safety, and accessibility through a new wheelchair van.

📅 Date: Sunday August 9th, 2026

📍 Location: Lincoln Park (1730 N. Stockton Dr. Chicago, IL 60614) - Grove 2 - Just North of Benjamin Franklin Monument 

⏰ Time: Check-in 8:00 AM | Race 9:00 AM

🎟️ Registration: Sign up on runsignup.com!

💙 How You Can Help:

- Register to walk, run, or cheer!
- Bring your family, strollers, pets, and wheelchairs welcome!
- If you DO NOT plan to participate, donations are being accepted here. Participants, please share the link to this site to collect further donations.

Together, we can help Archer and his family keep moving forward—one stride at a time.

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Running

5k Run

Aug 09, 2026 5K 9:00 AM
$50.00
Closed

Typical race-day weather

Based on 10 years of Open-Meteo archive data for this event's race dates in Chicago, plus the 3 days either side.

Temp (°C)
Minimum temperature (race-week average) 19.5° / Maximum temperature (race-week average) 27.5°
Feels Like (°C)
Minimum feels like — heat index / wind chill (race-week average) 19.5° / Maximum feels like — heat index / wind chill (race-week average) 31.1°
Peak wind (km/h)
Strongest wind of the day (race-week average)
21.1
Precip (mm)
Precipitation over the day (race-week average)
5.4mm
Humidity
Mean relative humidity (race-week average)
76.6%
Sunrise
Sunrise at the start line on August 9, 2026 (CDT)
Sunset
Sunset at the start line on August 9, 2026 (CDT)
Daylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on race day
14h 06m

The sun rises at 5:52 AM and sets at 7:59 PM local time (CDT) in Chicago on August 9, 2026 — 14h 06m of daylight.

Course

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  • Entries, prices, waves and inclusions — the event's official registration page
  • Temperature and humidity — Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
  • Elevation and terrain relief — Copernicus DEM GLO-90, ESA (CC BY 4.0)
  • Comparisons and counts — Race Discovery calendar, 153 Chicago events

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