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Washington to build a better place for Chicago’s fastest kids to run. After plenty of false starts, then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel finally broke ground on the facility in 2018. The facility is also supported by a two-floor wing for After School Matters programs. The $ 54 million athletic center in Pullman opened in 2021 and has already helped level the playing field for the city’s budding track athletes, and it has turned the Far South Side into a national track and field hub. The 139,000-square-foot field house, free and open to the public, sports a hydraulically banked track, eight sprint lanes, two long and triple jump runways and pits, a pole-vault runway and high jump and discus areas, as well as a scoreboard and 3,500 seats for fans.
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