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Chicago police are adding “significantly more” undercover officers at the start and finish lines of the Bank of America Chicago Marathon following news that the gunman who opened fire on concertgoers in Las Vegas over the weekend had been researching Chicago in the months before the attack.
“CPD will have heavy undercover presence at this #ChicagoMarathon,” Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi tweeted Thursday. “Well over 1,000 additional officers have been added to our deployment.”
From Cubs games to the Chicago Marathon, city officials say stepped up security plans have been and will stay in place for major events happening in the city this weekend.
As Grant Park prepares to host one of the city’s largest outdoor events, the Bank of America Chicago Marathon, drawing more than 40,000 runners and hundreds of thousands of spectators, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, city law enforcement and marathon organizers have been meeting to discuss upped security plans.
