Joabe Bayer Barbosa, 25, has completed his run of Chicago’s 4,000 miles of public streets.
Barbosa completed his final run down Michigan Avenue from Oak Street to Ida B. Wells Drive with a crowd of fans. Several donned Chicago flags as capes, as he has done throughout much of his journey through the city.
The London native is a clinical psychology doctoral student at Roosevelt University who got into running as a way to recover after a mountain hiking accident and took on this challenge in August 2024. He began documenting his journey to run every city street on Instagram and TikTok, racking up millions of views and gaining new fans as government officials and community leaders joined him, completing the last 20% of the map over the last four months.
He previously said the end would be “bittersweet” because it was “more about the journey than the actual end goal.”
