Running in the summer heat doesn’t have to be miserable. Writer Chelsey Stone gives you five expert-backed tips will keep you cool, hydrated, and safe while running in hot weather.

Should You Join Read & Run Events During Training Season? Here’s What Three Experts Have to Say. Photo credit Madeline Walczak.

Meet the readers & runners racing the 2026 Bank of America Chicago Distance Series races on behalf of Read & Run Chicago!

Read & Run Chicago was one of the Chicago-based organizations selected for the 2025 Bank of America Chicago Distance Series Entries for Equity program.

Read & Run Chicago is hosting five different guided running crawls between some of Chicago’s most beloved bookstores for Independent Bookstore Day 2026!

This February, our Reader & Runner of the Month is Betsy Tomszak!

Here are six ways to celebrate Black History Month in Chicago using. movement and stories.

This January, our Reader & Runner of the Month is Jeff Jones!

Here are the three volunteers you’ll see at Read & Run Chicago’s Winter 2026 events.

From Chicago Public Library’s crown jewel to dive bars, here are the Chicago bookish community’s list of coziest places to read in Chicago this winter.

Cynthia Okechukwu, Betsy Tomszak, and Allison Yates round up the best book clubs, bookstores, events, landmarks, and more for Chicago book lovers.

Membership for Read & Run Chicago’s Winter 2026 season is now open—and we have just a few spots left.

Our 2025 Chicago book picks.

This year, Read & Run Chicago was again one of the chosen Chicago running communities to take part in the Bank of America Chicago Distance Entries for Equity program.

Buy merch for the book-loving runners in your life this season—and fundraiser for the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights!

This December, our Volunteer of the Month is Monica Ortiz!

Vote for Read & Run Chicago in this year’s 2025 Best of Chicago awards for Best Tour (City Life) and Best Running Club (Sports & Fitness).

There are countless books set in Chicago that teach us the food, history, and culture of the city we love. Here’s our Holiday Gift Guide for the Chicagoans in your life.

We have exciting updates—including a restructured events volunteering program!

As a thank-you, we’re inviting the Read & Run Chicago community to vote for the people, places, books, authors, and spaces that made 2025 unforgettable.