Man Dies Running 'Corporate Challenge' Race In Grant Park
By Mae Rice in News on May 27, 2016 2:38PM
A 43-year-old man collapsed at a Thursday night race in Grant Park and later died. The man collapsed at 7:36 p.m. in the first block of North Columbus Drive, police said. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The man had suffered from cardiac arrest, the Sun-Times reported. Area Central is currently conducting a death investigation, according to police.
The man was at Grant Park to run the J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge, a 3.5-mile race that started at 7 p.m. Thursday night. The race had 27,037 entrants from 683 companies, according to J.P. Morgan.
"[W]e are aware of the fatality of a race participant and express our sincere condolences to their family, friends and coworkers," J.P. Morgan said in a statement to reports.
Update, 3 p.m.: The man who died in the race has been identified as Cao Bing, 43, of Wilmette. (We previously reported that police said he was 39; the Cook County Medical Examiner's office now reports he's 43.) Bing's autopsy shows that he died of cardiovascular disease (specifically, "hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease"), the medical examiner's office reports.
Tipster Stephen Vane also pointed out to us that Bing's death isn't the first fatality at J.P. Morgan's Chicago race. In 2011, another man from a Chicago suburb—Ralph Nosal, 61, of Elk Grove Village—collapsed and died while running the race.