The “500 Festival Mini-Marathon” will be held on Saturday, May 5th. Set-up for the race will affect traffic on New York Street Friday evening and the Saturday event will greatly affect both traffic and parking on-campus.
This marathon will involve approximately 40,000 plus participants.• New York St. (east of Univ. Blvd.) will be closed beginning Friday, May 4th at 6:00 p.m. through Saturday at 2:00 p.m.• The race will begin at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 5th near the corner of West and Washington Streets. • Both Blackford and California Streets south of Vermont St. will be closed during this time. • West St. will be closed from Ohio to Michigan St from 2:00 a.m. on Saturday through 2:00 p.m. on Saturday afternoon. • West St will be closed from Washington St. to Ohio from Saturday at 3:30 a.m. and should re-open at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday.• Washington St. will be closed from 3:30 a.m. on Saturday until 9:30 a.m. from Illinois to west of West St.
Easiest access to campus before and during the race will be from the West Street exits of I 65 (Exit 114) to Michigan Street and on Michigan Street from the east.
More information and maps may be found on the 500 Festival web site at http://www.500festival.com/mini-marathon
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