Mayor Brandon Johnson said Tuesday he is open to bringing the NASCAR Chicago Street Race back, but only after including more people in discussions about a contract extension than when former Mayor Lori Lightfoot agreed to the original deal.

The ratings from the weekend at Chicago are in for NASCAR. And unfortunately they’ve ticked down quite a bit from the last two years. Adam Stern of the Sports Business Journal reported that TNT and TruTV got 2.

As NASCAR's Chicago Street Race embarks on its third, and perhaps final, edition, drivers spoke fondly about the experiment's legacy.