2003 Event Sponsors will be announced in January, 2003.

To be part of the Chicago Lakeshore Marathon and Healthy Living Expo contact the Lakeshore Marathon Business Office and learn about sponsor and event partner opportunities.

Lakeshore Marathon General Manager
Lakeshore Marathon Company
75 E. Wacker Drive, #910
Chicago, IL 60601
phone: 773-765-9028
fax: 773-878-5513
sponsors@lakeshoremarathon.com

Official and Supporting Sponsors to the Inaugural Lakeshore Marathon 2002

Sincerest thanks to the following sponsors for their contributions and assistance to the inaugural Lakeshore Marathon. We are very grateful to, and proud of, all involved in the premier event.

To all event participants and visitors to this website, please support the following companies. They helped to establish a new spring marathon in Chicago. Please help us show our appreciation by enjoying their products and services.

Fox Sports Net Chicago Fox Sports Net is the Official Media Partner Sponsor of the Lakeshore Marathon. Fox Sports Net is Chicago's home for sports. In addition to being the Official Media Partner Sponsor of the Lakeshore Marathon, Fox Sports Net is the television broadcasting company for almost all of Chicago's professional sports teams; The Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Bulls, and Chicago Black Hawks.

Carb-BOOM Carb-BOOM has been chosen Official Energy Gel of the Lakeshore Marathon because, to borrow their tag line, it is "clean fuel" made with "real fruit". Carb-BOOM is rapidly gaining popularity because it tastes great, goes down easy, is easy on the stomach, and is the closest of all energy gels to resembling real food. Many runners are quickly switching to Carb-BOOM because the low simple sugars are an easily metabolized source of energy. Carb-BOOM also includes such natural ingredients as sea salt (bio-available electrolytes) and citric acid (a natural preservative). Carb-BOOM, founded in 1995, was the second company to introduce an energy gel to competitive athletes. Carb-BOOM also encourages earth and "Clean Planet" awareness, posting a reminder to consumers on Carb-BOOM packaging to please not litter.

Sparkling Spring Water Sparkling Spring is some of the best-tasting, highest-quality water you'll find. Sparkling Spring water flows from four high-quality sources. The original source, tapped in 1896, is a deep, flowing artesian well that is still in use at the Sparkling Spring, Highland Park bottling facility. The second Sparkling Spring well is a deep artesian source in Sauk Village, Illinois. Both yield abundant supplies of premium quality water, and supply many of the 1-gallon products, as well as the 3- and 5-gallon delivery products. These deep wells are also supplying Lakeshore Marathon participants with clean, fresh, water throughout the event!

Accelerated Rehab Accelerated Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine Centers provides care and support for sport and workplace-related injuries. Accelerated Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine Centers are headquartered in Chicago, with Sports Medicine Centers located throughout Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Arizona, Georgia and Florida. Accelerated Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine Centers coordinated the medical support team and medical support infrastructure for the inaugural Lakeshore Marathon.

The Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers Expect the Extras. Experience the Extraordinary. Exceeding your expectations is always the goal at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, the host hotel for the Lakeshore Marathon. So, they go beyond superb accommodations, deluxe amenities and the city's best location to a new level of hospitality. You will experience an award-winning hotel that can only be described as extraordinary.

DoubleTake Design An image that makes you sit up and take notice. A message that is so striking, you are compelled to look again ... At DoubleTake Design, we specialize in creating these defining moments. To achieve this, we pinpoint your precise goals. We strategize on how best to capture the attention of your target audience. Then we deliver your message in the most memorable and effective way possible.

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Supporting Sponsors

Stonyfield Farm Stonyfield Farm is committed to making the best-tasting, healthiest, refrigerated yogurts, frozen yogurts, cultured soy and ice cream possible. Stonyfield Farm is the largest organic yogurt producer in the U.S. and the nation's fastest-growing yogurt company, producing all natural and certified organic yogurt and ice cream products. The company advocates that healthy food can only come from a healthy planet. It was the first dairy in America to pay farmers more money to not use the synthetic bovine growth hormone rBGH. The company continues to support this practice and leads numerous environmental education programs for kids and adults. Stonyfield Farm is a role model, demonstrating that environmentally and socially responsible businesses can also be profitable. We applaud and support the efforts of Stonyfield Farm and ask you to do so also. For more information, call 1-800-PRO-COWS or visit www.stonyfield.com.

Fantasia Fresh Juice Co. Fantasia Fresh Fruit Smoothies and Juices is one of the top, up and coming Chicago area businesses. Fantasia, based in Rosemont, Illinois, specializes in producing natural and healthy fresh fruit juices and juice smoothies. Fantasia Fresh Fruit Smoothies and Juices supply the Midwest with fresh-daily, no- preservatives-added drinks. Fantasia's line of 21 juice, smoothie, and nutritional drinks is available in 11 Midwestern metropolitan markets.

Mori Nu Mori Nu is a leader in the organic soy products industry. Mori-Nu, like many Americans, is concerned about the genetic modification of foods. Consequently, all nine varieties of Mori-Nu Tofu are now made exclusively with organic, non-GMO soybeans grown in accordance with the California Organic Foods Act of 1990. Recently, Mori-Nu has introduced its newest innovation, Mori-Nu Creamy Soups made with organic soy. Like Mori-Nu Silken Tofu, Mori-Nu Soups in Butternut Squash, Corn, Garden Pea, and Tomato flavors, are aseptically packaged and do not require refrigeration until opened. Mori Nu has provided many generous samples for Lakeshore Marathon participants to experience the wonderful flavors of Mori Nu creamy soy soups.

Pear Bureau Northwest Pears are nutritious. Pears are loaded with dietary fiber, are good sources of potassium, and even with their abundant, naturally-sweet juices, average sized pears have only 100 calories. Spring is an excellent time for several varieties of USA pears. Of over 3,000 known pear varieties in the world, only a few are grown for commercial production, and those varieties differ throughout the world. USA Pears, which are those from Oregon and Washington, are the varieties that grow best in the Northwest, where ideal growing conditions exist.

Sunsweet Sunsweet is the world's largest handler of dried tree fruits: prunes, apricots, peaches, pears and apples. This grower-owned marketing cooperative was founded in 1917, as the California Prune and Apricot Growers Association to market the crops of its member at better prices then were offered by speculative buyers. Sunsweet was established as the new co-op's brand name and later adopted as the organization's corporate name. Sunsweet now processes and markets the dried fruit production of some 650 grower members with orchard holdings predominantly in California's San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys.

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