Sept. 2
Chicagoland Bicycle Federation Happy Hour

Sept. 3
Alderman Shirley A. Coleman's 16th Ward Sherman Park Criterium.

Sept. 8
Bike Culture Lecture Series: Sunday Parkways -- A Taste of Latin America in Chicago

Sept. 11
17th Annual Boulevard Lakefront Tour, benefitting Chicagoland Bicycle Federation

Sept. 16-18
Southland Healthy Streets & Trails Workshop

Sept. 24
Wilmette Bike To Soccer Day

All these events and more, to be shore, on biketraffic.org's Calendar of Events!

In ROLL Film! Borzo and Strauss review "La Course en Tête."

August 2005
July 2005
June 2005
May 2005

Big Bucks. Big Challenge, Too
On August 10, President Bush stopped at our local Caterpillar plant to sign the long-awaited six-year, transportation bill. If he had ridden his bike there, he could have taken the Virgil Gilman trail out of Aurora to Orchard Road. >> More

Bikes vs. Cars? No Thanks!
We work hard here at the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation to fight for safer streets every day of our lives. Lately, local headlines have been blaring sensationalism such as “Road Rage-The Bike vs. Car Battle Flares Up!” — and it’s getting on my nerves. >> More

Safe Routes Wins Federal Funding
The health and safety of Illinois children has finally become a priority in national transportation spending with the historic passage of Safe Routes to School legislation. >> More

Durbin's 'Conserve By Bike' Will Convert Car Trips to Bike
There’s at least one good conservation program in the new federal energy bill: Conserve by Bike. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois developed the program with the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation and successfully guided it through a tumultuous four-year legislative process. >> More

PROFILE: Aldermen Walter Burnett Jr. and Ariel Reboyras
One of the advantages of bicycling in Chicago is the breadth of detail we notice while riding the city’s neighborhoods: the graceful line of a row of houses, a parkway blooming with native prairie grasses, a pothole, a gaggle of . . . drug dealers. >> More

Record Turnout for Chicagoland Commuter Challenge
Ninety-nine organizations and more than 1,275 people participated in the 2005 Bicycle Commuter Challenge, making it the largest ever in Chicagoland. >> More

Gala Art Show a 'Gallery in Action'
During discussions about dedicating the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation’s 20th Anniversary Gala to Randy Neufeld, in honor of his leadership of the organization, Bryan Saner, a CBF member, volunteered to oversee the artistic aspects of the gala. >> More

Miles and Miles of Fun, Every Sunday
For the past several months, Chicagoland Bicycle Federation has been working to build support for something we call Sunday Parkways. Borrowed from programs in Latin America, the idea of Sunday Parkways is to return the avenues to the community for a few hours every Sunday, when a network of streets is closed to traffic - becoming completely car-free. >> More

Workshop a Step Toward Raising Southland Quality of Life
The Cal Sag Channel Trail is best described as part of a solution to quality of life issues on Chicago’s far Southeast Side and inner-ring southern suburbs. The term "quality of life" might be overused, but the Cal-Sag will improve people’s lives where they live, right now. >> More

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Calling All Volunteers!
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