Among the 53,000 people set to run the 2026 Chicago Marathon, there will be a handful of recognizable faces. This year, retired professional athletes, actors, and local legends, many of whom are also fundraising for charity organizations, are scheduled to race 26.2 miles through the Windy City. Here is the complete list of notable runners you’ll see in Chicago on Sunday.
Ten years after helping the Chicago Cubs win the 2016 World Series, Anthony Rizzo will return to Chicago to make his marathon debut. On Instagram, the three-time All-Star first baseman said he was inspired to run 26.2 after watching his wife, Emily, run the New York City Marathon. This weekend, Rizzo will be running for the Anthony Rizzo Family Foundation, the nonprofit he created to support families of pediatric cancer patients after surviving Hodgkin’s lymphoma at the age of 18.
Rizzo’s former Cubs teammate Jake Arrieta will be joining him on Sunday. The retired pitcher is also fundraising as part of Team Rizzo while sharing his training buildup on Instagram. In August, Rizzo wrote that he’s running Chicago in “pursuit of personal improvement,” and to support the Anthony Rizzo Family Foundation.
We appreciate your support,” he wrote in one of his posts. The Good Burger star is returning to his hometown for 26.2 miles in his second marathon. The former Nickelodeon actor often shares his fitness routine, which includes a lot of hybrid workouts, on Instagram.
In March, he completed his first 26.2 at the Los Angeles Marathon, which he finished in six hours and 16 minutes. On Sunday, Mitchell will run while fundraising for World Vision. Just three weeks before she races the Javelina Jundred, a 100-mile trail race, Des Linden is tuning up at the World Marathon Major this weekend.
This won’t even be her first hefty season of racing this year. In April, the two-time Olympian finished the Boston Marathon in 2:36:24 just a week after an incredible third-place finish in the women’s field at the Marathon de Sables—a 168-mile self-supported race over six stages across the Moroccan Sahara Desert. The Peloton instructor is competing in the Chicago Marathon and shared much of her buildup throughout the summer and fall on Instagram.
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