NASCAR Chicago Street Race has finally arrived, with the world’s best stock car drivers bringing their talents to the Windy City.

Shane van Gisbergen completed a sweep on the Chicago Street Course on Sunday, winning the NASCAR Cup Series race on the tricky downtown circuit.

The latest development in 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports’ charter lawsuit against NASCAR is that the teams could soon face the real possibility of running as open entries in Cup races, as the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denied a rehearing request last week.

For a third consecutive year, NASCAR is spending Independence Day weekend in Chicago as part of the NASCAR Chicago Street Race.

TNT takes over for NBC, which aired the race the last two years. Before debuting last week in Atlanta, TNT hadn’t carried a NASCAR race since 2014.

NBC loses two major NASCAR races in the 2025 broadcast reshuffle—Chicago Street Course and the iconic Brickyard 400—due to the sport’s $7.7 billion media deal expansion with Amazon Prime Video and TNT Sports.

NASCAR raced on the streets of Chicago for the third and potentially final time over the weekend.The initial three-year deal between NASCAR and the city of Chicago ended with Sunday’s race. However, there is a two-year option in the contract that could be exercised,

Beyond tens of thousands of expected attendees, Chicago’s telegenic lakefront and skyline will once again serve as a live backdrop to race cars careening around an urban circuit.

NASCAR may have produced an action-packed Chicago street race last weekend, but cable viewership didn't go so well. This year's edition had 2.