We received the following info via email from Bank of America Chicago Marathon Press office a few minutes ago.
Chicago Marathon wrote:
Today the Bank of America Chicago Marathon announced changes to the elite field for the Oct. 11, 2015 race.
Tsegaye Kebede (ETH) will no longer be participating due to an injury.
Additions to the men's field include Luke Puskedra (USA), Chicagoan Brandon Mull (USA), Mohammed Hrezi (USA) and Scott MacPherson (USA).
Birhane Dibaba (ETH) and Yebrgual Melese (ETH) have been added to the women's field.
Kebede's loss is significant as he was one of 4 sub-2:05 men in the field and was the guy they led with when they announced their elites for 2015 a few weeks ago:
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2015/09/2015-chicago-marathon-elite-field-released-tsegaye-kebede-and-florence-kiplagat-lead-the-way-deena-kastor-blake-ruessell-and-fernando-cabada-lead-the-american-entries/The updated list of elites is as follows:
Name Country Personal best
Sammy Kitwara KEN 2:04:28
Dickson Chumba KEN 2:04:32
Endeshaw Negesse ETH 2:04:52
Tilahun Regassa ETH 2:05:27
Abera Kuma ETH 2:05:56
Wesley Korir KEN 2:06:13
Sammy Ndungu KEN 2:07:04
Lucas Rotich KEN 2:07:17
Satoshi Yoshii JPN 2:10:45
Fernando Cabada USA 2:11:36
Hiroyuki Yamamoto JPN 2:11:48
Rob Watson CAN 2:13:29
Liam Adams AUS 2:13:49
Shogo Kanezane JPN 2:14:22
Luke Puskedra USA 2:15:27
Malcolm Richards USA 2:15:49
Scott MacPherson USA 2:16:20
Nicholas Hilton USA 2:16:20
Ethan Shaw USA 2:17:26
Tony Migliozzi USA 2:17:27
Ryan Cosens USA 2:17:55
Christopher Pannone USA 2:18:05
Jesse Davis USA 2:18:13
Brandon Mull USA 2:18:14
Dan Kremske USA 2:18:53
Christian Thompson USA 2:22:48
Elkanah Kibet USA Debut
Mitch Goose GBR Debut
Brandon Lord CAN Debut
Sean Keveren USA Debut
Mohamed Hrezi USA Debut
Women
Name Country Personal best
Deena Kastor USA 2:19:36
Florence Kiplagat KEN 2:19:44
Joan Samuelson USA 2:21:21
Mulu Seboka ETH 2:21:56
Birhane Dibaba ETH 2:22:30
Yebrgual Melese ETH 2:23:30
Amane Gobena ETH 2:23:30
Kayoko Fukushi JPN 2:24:21
Diane Nukuri BDI 2:27:50
Blake Russell USA 2:29:10
Susan Partridge GBR 2:30:46
Jessica Draskau Petersson DNK 2:30:53
Tera Moody USA 2:30:53
Fionnuala Britton IRL 2:31:46
Lindsey Scherf USA 2:32:19
Sarah Crouch USA 2:32:44
Alvina Begay USA 2:37:14
Taylor Ward USA 2:38:32
Sara Hall USA 2:48:02
Dawn Grunnagle USA 2:56:38
Monika Juodeskaite LTU Debut
Allison Mendez USA Debut
Carly Seymour USA Debut