NASCAR postpones Saturday’s Chicago Street Race due to weather

REPORTING LIVE TONIGHT. WHILE MIKE LOWE, WGN NEWS, HAPPY TO HEAR NO ONE IN THE HOME. JACKIE BANGE: DAY ONE OF THE FIRST EVER NASCAR STREET RACE IN CHICAGO WAS PARTIALLY WASHED AWAY BECAUSE OF THE WGN’S ANDREA MEDINA IS LIVE IN GRANT PARK WITH FAN REACTION. ANDREA? ITEM ON. AND JACKIE, NOT POSTPONED, BUT THE CHAINSMOKERS CONCERT WAS CANCELED AND IT WON’T BE RESCHEDULED. NOW, BESIDES A FEW VISITORS AND PEOPLE WORKING TO RACE, YOU WON’T FIND ANY OF THE 50,000 FANS THAT WERE HERE EARLIER TODAY. MANY LEFT THIS ENTRANCE BEHIND ME DISAPPOINTED THAT SAY BEFORE THE INCLEMENT

WEATHER DAMPEN THEIR SPIRITS, THEY WERE HAVING A GREAT IN THE HEART OF CHICAGO CARS RESUMING AT FAST SPEEDS AS THE STREETS AROUND GRANT PARK WERE TRANSFORMED INTO A NASCAR RACE TRACK. THIS IS THE FIRST STREET RACE. SO I MEAN, JUST BEING HERE IS REALLY COOL. HONESTLY. I MEAN, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT MIGHT NOT HAPPEN AGAIN. BUT LIGHTNING AND RAIN THREATS FORCED NASCAR TO POSTPONE THE XFINITY SERIES PRETTY UPSET. I’M NOT GOING TO LIE LIKE THERE’S NO RAIN. LIKEWISE CANCEL. IT WAS REALLY SAD. BUT I MEAN, WE HAD SUCH A GREAT EXPERIENCE. LOOK LIKE WATCHING THE

CARS FEELING BECAUSE WE WE HAVE LIKE A SPOT RIGHT ON STANDS. AND IT WAS LIKE IT WAS REALLY AMAZING BEFORE THE RAINFALL. SOME FIRST TIMER SAY THIS WAS AN

EXPERIENCE OF A LIFETIME ARE SEEING ON THE CARS. I CAN THE BACKDROP THERE. THE CUP SERIES GARAGES RIGHT THERE BEING ABLE TO SEE ALL DIFFERENT STUFF COMING UP HERE DURING THE SEEING THE STUFFING. ALL TOGETHER IS REALLY FUN FOR ME. EXCITED THAT DAY. SITE TODAY IS VERY, VERY CUTTERS ARE CALLING THE OUTSIDE NUMBERS ON THE WAY FOR DIEHARD FANS. IT WAS ALL ABOUT DRIVERS, FUN. AND YASEMIN

SIGNED MY OWN IS EXCITED TO SEE HOW THE RACE. AND THEN EVERYBODY UNDER THE AND I GREW UP WATCHING DALE, YOU KNOW, DALE JUNIOR, MY FATHER, THE NEIGHBORS AND EVERYTHING LIKE THAT. SO ALWAYS BEEN A NASCAR FAN. WELL, THE TRACK IS WHERE MOST OF THE NOISE AND ENERGY IS THERE WAS RACING MERGE AND OF THE DAY. BOTH NEWBIES AND LOYAL FANS ARE FILLED WITH ADRENALINE TO BE EXPERIENCING THE FIRST STREET RACE IN NASCAR. 75 YEAR. HISTORY HISTORICAL EVENT, ESPECIALLY THAT IT’S HAPPENING IN CHICAGO. I THINK EXCITING. EVERYBODY’S REALLY EXCITED. DOUBLE HEADER RACE TOMORROW. TODAY’S RACE

WAS PUSHED FOR 10:00AM AND THE MAIN RACE TOMORROW. THE CUP SERIES IS NOW SCHEDULED AT 405. WE’RE LIVE IN GRAND PARK, ANDREA