You can also view this issue at www.biketraffic.org/biketraffic/BT0205/
or download the PDF at www.biketraffic.org/biketraffic/BT0205.pdf.
It's not like you need a pair
of sharpened No. 2s to become one: just go to biketraffic.org
and click on "volunteer."
Talk about "No Volunteers Left Behind": more than 1000 people gave their time and talents to the efforts and programs of the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation in 2004, managing and grunting and processing and designing and editing and greeting at our offices and a dozen area events. All because they want better bicycling and more livable communities. And also because it's flat-out fun.
Volunteer opportunities are mutliple-choice and there are no wrong answers; filling in your name is worth 7000 points. If becoming a brain surgeon were this easy....
OK, that's just scary.
Talk about "No Volunteers Left Behind": more than 1000 people gave their time and talents to the efforts and programs of the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation in 2004, managing and grunting and processing and designing and editing and greeting at our offices and a dozen area events. All because they want better bicycling and more livable communities. And also because it's flat-out fun.
Volunteer opportunities are mutliple-choice and there are no wrong answers; filling in your name is worth 7000 points. If becoming a brain surgeon were this easy....
OK, that's just scary.
Let Bikes On-Board NOW!
Quinn's no Eskimo, but we're still jumping with joy
After
six months of negotiating with the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation (CBF),
the League of Illinois Bicyclists, and other interested groups, Illinois
Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn has boarded the Bikes on Metra campaign, and
in a big way. At a press conference inside Millennium Park's Bike Station
on January 13, Quinn outlined a plan to force Metra to finally join the
nation's other major commuter rail providers and offer significant service
to passengers with bicycles. Quinn's approach is three pronged:
1. Quinn has sent an Administrative Petition to Metra asking for service for passengers with bicycles. Under state law, Metra has 48 hours to respond to this petition.
2. Quinn has started an on-line petition drive (www.BikesOnMetra.com) to demonstrate public support for service for passengers with bicycles.
3. Quinn's office has written legislation with CBF's help to be introduced in the Illinois General Assembly that will require Metra to provide service to passengers with bicycles during non-peak times. State Representative Marlow Colvin (D-33) is sponsoring the bill.
Although Metra did offer very limited and restrictive service to passengers with bicycles during the summers of 2001-2003, Metra has refused to respond to CBF's recommendations for expanded service.
Metra, it seems, responds only when state officials explicitly ask that they cooperate. The Illinois legislature passed a Bikes on Metra bill in 1999 that required Metra to explore providing service to passengers and their bikes. Lacking real consequences, however, Metra successfully rebuked the legislature's wishes until CBF arranged a meeting with Metra CEO Philip Pagano and State Representatives Judy Irwin and Carole Pankau in the winter of early 2001.
That meeting led to a promising "start-up" program (Pagano's words) in late-summer 2001. The program, which field-tested bikes-on-trains service on eight of Metra's lines, proved that Metra could provide the service without delaying trains or inconveniencing other passengers, raising hopes among the region's bicyclists for a subsequently expanded, regular service. Metra instead cut the service severely over the next two years. By 2003, bicyclists were so frustrated with the dirth of service dates and train lines--just one line offering eight days of service--that some trains ran with no bicyclists at all. Metra had engineered the program's demise [see "Bikes on Metra Scores an F", Bike Traffic, November 2003].
Quinn's initiatives up the ante for Metra, and his timing couldn't be better: Metra's own experience and that of numerous other commuter rail lines across the country and around the world have shown that bikes on trains work. Go to www.BikesOnMetra.com and sign the petition. Encourage others to do the same. We'll let you know when to contact your state legislators to encourage them to vote on Quinn's bill. With the lieutenant governor's help, we hope that Metra develops a meaningful bikes-on-trains program for the long haul.
Randy W. is CBF's Program Director.
Just Lock It...Then Take It!
CTA Bike Parking Capacity to Swell With Five New Facilities
Finding a parking spot for your bike at a nearby Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) station is about to get a whole lot easier for you- and easier on your bike too.
That's because there are plans later this year to open four new bike-parking facilities at CTA train stations throughout the city, with a fifth facility in the works as well. When completed, these five facilities will include both indoor and outdoor bike racks that will add more than 400 bike-parking spots in total.
The first four facilities are scheduled for construction this fall at these stations (with approximate number of new and existing biking spots in parentheses):
* Jefferson Park/Blue Line - (112)
* Damen/Blue Line - (104)
* Midway/Orange Line (154)
* 35th-Sox/Red Line (42)
The Damen and 35th-Sox facilities will be indoors, while the Jefferson Park and Midway parking stations will both be located outside--although bikes parked at the latter stations will be protected from the elements by canopies and windscreens.
Spaces will be free and available on a first-come, first-served basis, and the hours of access will be identical to the operating hours of the station. (Only the Midway station isn't open 24 hours, but since its bike racks are located outside, bikers will essentially have 24-7 access to all of these new facilities.) As room inside these CTA stations is limited, the indoor parking stations will feature double-decker bike racks.
Additionally, Rogers Park bikers need not despair as the fifth facility is in the works at the Howard station with a planned capacity of 70 indoor spots.
Chicagoland Bicycle Federation:
Vocal Planning Partners
The Chicagoland Bicycle Federation (CBF) and the greater Chicago biking community have been vocal participants throughout the planning process for these new bike-to-transit facilities.
"CBF reviewed the initial plans for the bike parking facilities and [CBF Planning Director] Nick Jackson provided some valuable plans on constructing a stairway channel for providing an easy way to transport bikes up and down stairs" although this feature wasn't incorporated into the initial project, said Trisha Sternberg of the Chicago Department of Transportation, the manager of the $675,000 project.
CDOT also solicited feedback from area bike shops in a series of meetings.
The bike parking facility locations were chosen by CDOT based on internal studies, which measured both current and latent rider demand, as well as factoring in population, employment and overall transportation patterns.
Funding for the project came from the federal level specifically from the Department of Transportation's Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program. Once CDOT received the funding, it brought on the CTA as a partner to scope out a large-scale solution to bike parking.
"We'd already worked with the CTA on adding some bike racks at the Midway station, so we began discussing a much larger project," said Sternberg, who added that the planning began in earnest in the spring of 2003. Sternberg has been working with her counterpart at the CTA throughout this planning process and an architectural firm was commissioned to draft plans for the five new bike parking facilities.
CDOT hopes that these bike parking facilities are just the start of something that will eventually be found at all CTA stations. To that end, the city has contributed a chapter to the CTA station design manual that includes information and specs on designing bike parking.
Immediate next steps include receiving the final sign-offs on the architectural plans for these facilities and choosing a contractor. After that, it'll be time to break new ground - on both five new bike-parking facilities and on a growing collaboration between the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation, the City of Chicago and the CTA to promote mass transit and biking.
Thomas volunteers as a writer and editor for Bike Traffic.
Better Late Than Never
Cook County budget finally takes bike riders seriously
Although a little a later than usual, Cook County President John Stroger recently rolled out his annual proposed budget for the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, and it looks good on paper with some big numbers for bike projects.
There are no actual project lists or rankings; but what the budget lacks in specifics, it makes up for with impressive figures.
The proposed capital improvement plan for 2005-2009 includes $19 million for new trails; $12 million will be funded by the county, and plans are to apply for another $7 million in state and federal grants.
Also, for the first time, the county has budgeted the money needed to rebuild the existing trail network, estimated at more than $13 million.
During September and October of 2004, in a series of five public meetings about improving bicycling in the Cook County forest preserves, Chicagoland Bicycle Federation (CBF) members voiced many concerns over the state of the trail system. We're encouraged to see indications of a new focus on preserving and enhancing this county's extensive trail network.
CBF has been presenting and discussing the recommendations from these 2004 meetings at recent forest preserve budget hearings. Our testimony has been well-received; Cook County commissioners have asked CBF to help prioritize new trail plans. We look forward to a closer relationship with this major player in the quality of bicycling in Chicagoland.
Nick is CBF's Director of Planning.
PEOPLE PROFILE
Don Grabowski
After three years as CDOT Bike Program chief, "Get It Done" Don moves on
"Where
was that bike rack located?" asked Don Grabowski, deputy commissioner of
the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT), at a recent meeting of
Mayor Daley's Bicycle Advisory Council (MBAC). He had just listened to Uptown resident Susan Peithman complain to the council that a neighborhood bike rack was displaced following a recent construction project. After a quick phone call right in the middle of the meeting, Don proclaimed, "It's been taken care of."
For the members of the MBAC, it was the last chance they would have to witness Don's flair for taking action. CDOT has reorganized itself, and Don has handed the reins of the CDOT Bicycle Program over to LuAnn Hamilton to take on other responsibilities.
As Bike Program chief, Don proved himself as not only a man of action, but as a diplomat when it comes to integrating bicycles into Chicago's traffic culture.
Before Don was put in charge of the Bicycle Program, he was a cyclist who knew that there were both good and bad things about cycling in Chicago. He would often ride his bike to Wrigley Field on a Saturday, spend some time there and then hop on the train with his bicycle to downtown, ride his bike from the train station to his office and then run a few errands on his bike on his way home. A self-proclaimed "leisure cyclist" Don used his bike the way many Chicagoans do.
Don didn't consciously think of why certain streets were uncomfortable to ride on or what would make locking his bike up easier. "It took me to be in the bike program to understand unconscious thoughts I was having," Don said. Once he took charge of the program, he began to consciously think about how bicyclists could be better served. Don says, "I tried to give it (the bike program) equal weight from a timeframe standpoint."
"If you somehow get 10 to 15 percent of people out of their cars then it (traffic) would work better. That's where I think bikes can come into play," says Don.
The diplomat side of Don comes into play when he works with all the other aspects of his job and with other city departments. He has worked to integrate bicycling into the way the city does business. Don's goal is to have the needs of cyclists routinely considered when projects proceed through their approval process. Thinking about bicycling interests should just "happen," he said.
One of the biggest gains for cyclists, as Don sees it, has been increased access to bikes on transit. When people can combine bicycles with transit, he says "that's a logical linkage," and transit becomes a more realistic option for people.
"The mayor has made bicycling a priority," Don said. "And I pick up that ball and charge forward with it." At the same time he realizes that most people aren't riding bikes right now and he has tried to advance the Bicycle Program without creating a backlash against cycling.
Even though he won't be in charge of the bike program anymore, Don won't stop advancing bicycle interests in Chicago. "We need to do what is right. We need to keep bicycling in the mainstream," says Don, "I have much more of an awareness (of bicycling issues) now...and I will continue to be involved."
Don won't be sitting at the head of the MBAC meetings anymore; but if he knows a bike rack needs to be replaced, he won't hesitate to make a phone call.
Randy W. is CBF's Program Director.
Expanded Programs, Same Office Space
Meet the new shoulders ours will rub with. Literally.
Beth
Gutelius - As Program Manager, School Safety Program of Mayor Daley's
Bicycling Ambassadors (PMSSPMDBA), Beth represents an enlargement of the
standard business card size as well as Chicago's Bicycling Ambassador program.
That program, now three years old, deploys bicyclists trained in street-smart
cycling around the city to promote cycling and teach safe road sharing skills
to bike riders and drivers alike from May through September. The School
Safety Program will deploy cyclists to the city's schools during the school
year to teach safe cycling and walking skills to elementary and middle school
students. Beth grew up in Evanston, and studied photography in school. She's been an organic farmer in New Mexico (OFNM) and has tutored children in afterschool programs at the YMCA (TCAPYMCA) and for the Princeton Review test preparation program (TCPRTPP). How excited is she to start her new job? "PDE," says Beth, "PDE."
Neil
Kocsis - As our new bookkeeper, Neil sees the ledger as abstract story
boards, the tension of the payables and receivables playing out in an unfolding
drama of give and take as cash and debt war over who ultimately dominates
the balance sheet. "No, I don't," claims Neil. But he does dream of making films. With both a CPA and an MBA, Neil worked for real estate companies for six years before "growing up and getting on with my life." At 31, he enrolled in filmmaker Kevin Smith's grudging alma mater, the Vancouver Film School, one-upping Smith by actually graduating. "He only went there for three months" before dropping out of the program, says Neil. "I should be four times as good."
Neil rides a bike to work since starting at the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation (CBF), and now rides to his other gig as volunteer accountant at Chicago Community Cinema, another organization where embezzling money to make your movie would be like sucking damp sawdust through a swizzle stick to quench your thirst.
Melody
Geraci - Former Chicago shared housing program coordinator and current
Irish fiddle player, Melody takes over as Program Manager for an expanded
Safe Routes to School program, and adds to CBF's musical line-up which features
Matt Maloney of Big Buildings, Dave Callahan of The Drovers and Stroby Alliance,
and Michael Girgis, whose band is named after the clot-blocking agent in
leeches. In the past, CBF's Safe Routes to School program has been tied by funding to work almost exclusively in Chicago. This year, the program's funding sources allow Melody to reach beyond the city to develop and administer Safe Routes to School programs in the suburbs.
Melody has three kids and plays gigs all over the area with her Irish music club, Murphy Roche. Her home town, south suburban Steger, currently bans kids from riding bikes to school, and she looks forward to exploring new strategies to expand Safe Routes into the suburbs and new opportunities in Chicago schools. Perhaps she will come across the superintendent of Steger's schools playing on a fiddle and playing it hot, and maybe she'll jump up on a hickory stump and wager her soul against his school bike ban in a fiddling contest.
Or perhaps not.
Shucking Shifting
Northwestern students toss the click-click in the can-can
Have you ever been riding your bike at top speed in high gear and then had to stop so quickly you had no time to downshift? Wouldn't it be nice to have a gear system where you didn't have to shift? A system so the bike would do the shifting for you?
Every 25 years or so an inventor creates a product that revolutionizes the bicycle industry. For example: adjustable shocks, disc brakes, or all-wheel drive. So how about a continuously variable transmission (CVT) for your bicycle to eliminate shifting?
The CVT is designed to replace the shifting gears, shifting cables, and the derailer. The CVT instantaneously lowers the gearing ratios when more torque is applied and instantaneously increases the gearing ratio when less torque is applied. When you're going up a hill the CVT lowers the gearing ratio making it easier to pedal, and when you go downhill it increases the ratio so you're not, well, just spinning your gears.
A team of students from the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University has created a prototype of a bicycle CVT. The students worked together in a ten-week, senior level design course that split the students up into small groups to solve a problem using their mechanical engineering knowledge and skills.
Professor Lueptow taught the course. The team of students who worked on the CVT where Nick Hooyman, Andy Stager, Brian Korte, and Matt Cullnan. Nick Hooyman, the leader of the group, was credited with coming up with the idea of designing a bicycle CVT.
Nick and his team designed the CVT from scratch through brainstorming and ideation, drew a detailed design on a computer, and manufactured the CVT parts out of steel and aluminum using high tech machine shop tools.
For their CVT design, Lueptow, Nick, and the team won second place in the school's 2004 Frey Prize, which encourages students to apply their engineering skills for practical application. The professor won $3000 and the students won $8000.
I was unable to test ride their CVT bicycle--I didn't even get to see it or look at a picture of it. Their CVT design is a closely guarded secret because of patent laws.
Their design is probably a few years away from being installed on bikes and only product testing will tell if this is the next breakthrough in bicycle technology. We will just have to wait and see. In the meantime just remember to downshift when you stop.
Roger happens to be Roger Rickshaw, operating a fleet of tourist-toting pedicabs in the Chicago area. Line him up for your event: rogerrickshaw@hotmail.com.
Not
in My BackyardBattle with pavement ends in truce--for now
When my wife Gin and I bought our dream-house--a 1920s, yellow brick 3-flat in Logan Square--our number one priority home improvement project was to get rid of the concrete slab dominating the backyard. In a twist on the old Joni Mitchell song, we decided to depave paradise and take out the parking pad.
Similar to about 30% of Chicago households, Gin and I don't own a car. We happily use bikes, CTA and our feet to navigate the city. With no need for parking, it seemed silly to have a big, cold slab of concrete outside our backdoor instead of a birdbath, apple tree and tomato patch.
Sure, our concern about the negative environmental impacts of pavement played an important role in our depaving plans. The plethora of urban pavement causes water run-off that dumps toxic stuff like lawn fertilizer and pesticides into our waterways. Concrete also absorbs lots of heat on summer days, contributing to the cough-inducing ozone levels poisoning our air.
But, truth be told, our primary motivation for swinging the sledge hammer was a vision of our backyard Eden-to-be.
So, on a warm Saturday morning in September, we pulled our red Radio Flyer wagon to the neighborhood Ace Hardware and rented a 75-pound, 15-amp, electric jackhammer. For our first foray into depaving, we decided to concentrate our attack on a 20-square-foot ribbon of concrete sandwiched between the parking pad and a fence.
The concrete proved to be tough stuff. It took us a few hours to blast away the top 6-inch layer of cement, beneath which we found a layer of bricks, and then an additional 4-inch layer of pavement below that. For a while, I feared it might be paved straight through to China!
Our forearms ached from the pounding of the jackhammer as we sledge hammered and picked away the layer of bricks. Too tired to knock out the bottom four inches of taunting concrete, we drilled drainage holes every six inches or so and declared mission accomplished. We then filled the reclaimed area with top soil and planted six Rose of Sharon trees that our friend Sam gave us.
After our hard fought battle with the first sliver of concrete, depaving the rest of our 400-square-foot parking slab moved down on our home improvement "To Do" list.
According to landscape architect and do-it-yourself depaver Marcus de la fleur, our depaving experience wasn't unique. "If you're going to do it yourself, you have to be ready for some trial and error. For a big depaving project, you may want to bring in the professionals."
While the days are numbered for our hideous slab of concrete, for now we've concentrated our efforts on beautifying the unpaved area of our yard. We planted a MacIntosh apple tree and constructed raised beds that yielded a bumper crop of tomatoes. Gin also built an attractive lattice partition, full of climbing morning glory vines, that effectively walls off the view of the parking pad from our garden.
Our small garden area is very nice, but we're looking forward to doubling our patch of paradise as we plot our next assault on the asphalt. I won't disclose all the plans of our upcoming sneak attack here, but I can tell you, it will probably involve some hired guns.
Michael's the secretary of the Campaign for a Free and Clear Lakefront, ForeverFreeandClear.org. And Nick Jackson has lots of ideas to reclaim paved space in your community. Ask him about Road Diets: .
Kid tested, mother approved. Fortified with more than 20 design, planning and advocacy workshops and seminars, and sweetened with a real-life extreme intersection make-over, the second annual Healthy Streets Conference is good and good for you. Register on-line at biketraffic.org.
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Federation ringer Ts in ultra-mod brown and baby-blue for $10 at biketraffic.org under "shop." Old "Join the Colony" Ts clearing out at $5, but won't get you on the catwalk, on the catwalk, yeah.
When you drive, you're still a bicycle advocate. Or you could be. Click the sign above to take the pledge. Or read about the Driver's Pledge in the December 2002/January 2003 Bike Traffic.
Crash rehash. CBF is assembling data from
those involved in bicycle crashes in Chicago over the past year. If you
have experienced such a crash, please take five or ten minutes and fill
out our survey. Please contact Project Manager Matt Maloney at
with any questions. Early bird catches the worm genetically tagged with $3 coupon for Bike The Drive. Register by February 27 for the fourth annual Bike The Drive on Sunday, May 29 and receive $3 off your registration fee. New to 2005, kids can ride for only $5 with a paid adult. Event information and registration details are available at BikeTheDrive.org by the time you read this, or shortly after. Contact Anne Davis at for more information.
Good Friday. Chicago's Handlebar Bar & Grill, 2311 W. North Ave., hosts "CBF Happy Hour" the first Friday of each month, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Grab a friend and your CBF membership card and enjoy a free chili-cheese quesadilla. For more information, please call (773) 384-9546 or visit The Handlebar on-line. Next happy hour: March 4, three days before the managing editor's birthday. Yes, he's asking you to buy him drinks.
Oy, SRAM schmancied my ride! Visiting SRAM headquarters for a meeting about event sponsorship, CBF Exeutive Director Rob Sadowsky left his commuter bike on the SRAM test track and headed to a local cafe with some SRAM marketing folks. Only after returning did Sadowsky realize his ride had been "schmancied": SRAM had outfitted Sadowsky's bike with World Cup-winning X.9 Trigger Shifters, X.9 rear derailleur, SRAM PowerChain chain and PowerGlide II cassette. His new brakes are the Avid Juicy Five hydraulic disc brakes.
"I'd never been schmancied before, so I wasn't sure of the feeling, but the new componentry is certainly welcome and will make my daily commute in Chicago's extreme weather that much easier," said Sadowsky before returning to chillin' with his nuchshleppers, flashing gelt for the shanas and sipping decaf soy latte from a schmaltzy goblet the size of your shikseh's tuchis.
Bike Traffic is published by the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation, a nonprofit, volunteer advocacy organization that is improving the quality of life in Northeastern Illinois by making cycling safer, more convenient, and more fun. All material that isn't copyrighted may be reprinted. Advertising rates available on request.
Managing Editor
Steve Buchtel, for the last time.
Editors
Rob Sadowsky
Dan Korman
Hedy Helfand
Randy Neufeld
Christopher Hinton
David Callahan
Dave Glowacz
Layout
Steve Buchtel
February 11 - Chicago
Critical Mass Art Show Opening/Happy Hour. 6:00 p.m. at Highschool Gallery,
1542 Milwaukee Avenue, 3rd Floor, Chicago.
March 10 - Bike Culture Lecture Series: The First 30 Years of Bicycling in Chicago (1869-99). 12:15 p.m. at Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph, Chicago.
April 1-2 - Healthy Streets Conference. More than 20 workshops and seminars for the bicycle/pedestrian advocate, engineer, planner, public works person, candlestick make...okay, not them. Registration is open at biketraffic.org.
April 2 - CBF's 20th Anniversary Gala: A Tribute to Randy Neufeld. Rob Sadowski has the info: 312/427-3325x228.
April 1-3 - Chicago Bike Show. Navy Pier. CBF will be there. Yes, that's what I said. More info at chicagobikeshow.com.
May 29 - Bike The Drive. Register at BikeTheDrive.org.
All these events and more than you can shake a stick at on biketraffic.org's Calendar of Events!
Shake that stick the other way, buddy.
March 10 - Bike Culture Lecture Series: The First 30 Years of Bicycling in Chicago (1869-99). 12:15 p.m. at Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph, Chicago.
April 1-2 - Healthy Streets Conference. More than 20 workshops and seminars for the bicycle/pedestrian advocate, engineer, planner, public works person, candlestick make...okay, not them. Registration is open at biketraffic.org.
April 2 - CBF's 20th Anniversary Gala: A Tribute to Randy Neufeld. Rob Sadowski has the info: 312/427-3325x228.
April 1-3 - Chicago Bike Show. Navy Pier. CBF will be there. Yes, that's what I said. More info at chicagobikeshow.com.
May 29 - Bike The Drive. Register at BikeTheDrive.org.
All these events and more than you can shake a stick at on biketraffic.org's Calendar of Events!
Shake that stick the other way, buddy.
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For he hath overused exclamation marks so that ye shall be spared.
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This Man Wants to Install
YOUR Bike Rack! John Greenfield and
the CDOT Bike Rack Program have dozens of shiny new racks ready to install
RIGHT NOW at the site of your choosing. THEY COST YOU NOTHING, and beautify
any establishment. Request one! Request a dozen! Fill out the
on-line form at chicagobikes.org!
on-line form at chicagobikes.org!
Chicagoland Bicycle Federation
Staff Directory
Staff Directory
Chicagoland Bicycle Federation
Board of Directors:
President
Corey Coscioni, Chicago
Treasurer
Arthur Gilfand, Chicago
Vice-President
Derrick James, Chicago
Secretary
Mary DeBacker, Chicago
Directors
Aaron Freeman, Chicago
Cyd Curtis
Jane Healy
Jim Kreps, Chicago
Matt Longjohn, M.D.
Philip Martin
Ellen McKenna, Oak Park
Mike Mercuri, Chicago
Wayne Mikes, Palatine
Elaine Nekritz, Northbrook
Susan Plassmeyer, Chicago
Judith Rice, Chicago
David Seglin, Chicago
Al Sturges, Park Forest
Craig Williams, Oak Park
President
Corey Coscioni, Chicago
Treasurer
Arthur Gilfand, Chicago
Vice-President
Derrick James, Chicago
Secretary
Mary DeBacker, Chicago
Directors
Aaron Freeman, Chicago
Cyd Curtis
Jane Healy
Jim Kreps, Chicago
Matt Longjohn, M.D.
Philip Martin
Ellen McKenna, Oak Park
Mike Mercuri, Chicago
Wayne Mikes, Palatine
Elaine Nekritz, Northbrook
Susan Plassmeyer, Chicago
Judith Rice, Chicago
David Seglin, Chicago
Al Sturges, Park Forest
Craig Williams, Oak Park
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