AM/C future depends great deal on Boston

Strange, but true: the date and field of the next America'sMarathon/Chicago will be determined in large part by what happens atMonday's 91st Boston Marathon.

The AM/C runner recruitment campaign normally starts at Boston.Not so this year. The Chicago race won't even have a booth atBoston's heavily-attended Runners' Expo.

But Bob Bright, executive director, and Pete Kozura, director,will represent AM/C at Boston.

"My going is largely tradition," Bright said. "There is a lotof politics involved." Next year there might be even more, if AM/Cswitches to a May date - a move possibly necessitated by the race'schange in sponsorship.

Both Bright …