In the 22 years that Mayor Daley was in office, he created around 115 miles of bike lanes in Chicago. Mayor Emanuel hopes to do better than the former mayor, and proposes to create an additional 100 miles of bike lanes over the next four years.
Mayor Emanuel Aims to Create Over 100 Miles of Protected Bike Lanes
Introducing: The Wilco Bike
Is anyone surprised that a Wilco-themed bicycle is a single-speed bike with a fixed hub option, painted in sky blue?
A Monthly Cycle Ladies Will Actually Welcome: Critical Lass
Lady bikers of Chicago are finally getting--to heavily paraphrase Virginia Woolf--"a ride of one's own" in the new women and trans-only monthly bike ride, Chicago Critical Lass.
It's New To Us: "Chi-Cog-Go" Posters
In our continuing effort to make your office look more like a dorm room, we bring you the "Chi-Cog-Go" silk-screened poster. It's a nice appropriation of the Chicago flag with gear cogs, reflecting, depending on your train of thought, this city's thriving bicycle culture or its status last century as a city of industry.
Celebrate Chicago's Bike Culture With CPR's Hubs & Spokes
Hop on that bike saddle and crank your chain, bike likers. On Saturday, May 30 Chicago cyclists will trek to the Hyde Park Art Center for Chicago Public Radio Presents’ panel discussion, Hubs & Spokes: Threading the Wheels of Chicago’s Bike Culture. The event begins with a free bike ride from five city locations and then converges at the Art Center for a ticketed panel chat about the cycling community’s reclamation of the bike as a respectable, practical mode of everyday transport.
Coast To Work In Style On A Commuter Bike
Maybe you’re tired of feeding parking meters an entire roll of quarters at once. Or you’re sick of Chicago’s mass transit melting down every five minutes, while fares edge higher. Doesn’t sunshine and exercise sound better? Because bicycles aren’t just for kids. Sure, they’re fun. But now more than ever, biking is a convenient transportation option that saves time, money, the environment—perhaps even your sanity.
CTA Adding Additional Bike Parking
The CTA is building four new structures to meet increased demand for pedal-powered parking. The Midway stop on the Orange Line, the Sox-35th stop on the Red Line, and the Jefferson Park and Damen stops on the Blue Line will each be home to covered, three-walled bike ports that will house a combined total of 382 bicycles. [S-T]
Bike Rental Update
More hang-ups on Chicago’s bike sharing program: apparently no one can agree on who will be responsible if someone gets hurt.
Get Nekkid & Ride This Saturday Night
If you have a hankering to hang out quite literally with a few hundred naked like-minded progressives this weekend (and who doesn't) mark your calendar for tomorrow night.
Bike to Work Week Starts Tomorrow
The Chicagoland Bicycle Federation is on a mission to get our butts out of our cars and off the CTA’s new upholstery, and onto a bike seat pronto. They’re teaming up with the City of for the first official Bike to Work Week which aims to open Chicagoans’ minds to becoming full-time bike commuters.

