Best Running Shops In Chicago Near Me

4worldlovers:
Want to run pain free? Record a new PR? Get started building weekly mileage? Break down your running mechanics? That’s what perfect fitting shoes, custom insoles and socks will do for you with our revolutionary, new 3D Perfect Fit System.


Just come to your Illinois running store today, and in less than 9 minutes we’ll capture the world’s most accurate three-dimensional scan of your feet. Our new 3D Fit Drone powered by Volumental records six critical foot measurements, including foot size, length, width, arch height, instep and heel width. And boom! You’ll be outfitted with your shoes, personalized custom insoles and socks.

We’ve fit more than 2.8 million runners and walkers in perfect shoes over the last 10 years alone. Millions more since we started over 35 years ago. So, we know shoe fit better than anyone.

Receive cash back, free shipping and our 90-Day Perfect Fit Promise on shoes, socks, and insoles. With more than 58,000 VIP Family members, you’ll be part of the strongest family of runners and fitness fans here in Illinois. Plus, you’ll enjoy the best prices on shoes, apparel and gear in the country as a VIP Family member.

We love Illinois and we’re so grateful to be part of your hometown. We’ve given over $2,300,000 to nationwide communities like yours by donating shoes to those in need, sponsoring high school team nights, and helping disabled athletes.

4worldlovers: Fleet Feet's story began in 1976, when Sally Edwards and Elizabeth Jansen—both collegiate athletes, educators, and not yet 30 —made the very unlikely, very risky decision to open a running store together on the second floor of a fixer-upper Victorian house in Sacramento, California.


Sally and Elizabeth wanted to create a place for their friends, their community, and their fellow athletes that provided the shoes, gear, and the community that was so lacking at the time for runners. Working seven days a week with one shoe brand in stock and a shoe box for a register, Sally and Elizabeth focused their efforts on community outreach. Using a refurbished U.S Postal Service van, the two put considerable effort into driving to area high schools to fit student athletes, as well as supporting the grassroots events of the Sacramento area's first running club, the Buffalo Chips.


It took a year, but eventually sales crept up, enticing other brands to become vendors. Opportunity came calling in 1978, and Sally and Elizabeth opened Fleet Feet's second location 90 miles north of Sacramento in the town of Chico. As additional requests came in for stores, Sally and Elizabeth decided rather than become a multi-store business, Fleet Feet would become a franchise operation built on an incredibly solid foundation of local ownership.