A tour bike leaning on the painted metal fence of a heavily panted colorful gingerbread Queen Anne home.

For spectators and runners

The 2023 edition of the Chicago Marathon starts/finishes in Grant Park this coming Sunday, October 8th. You can access a map of the route here. The following pictures are sites the runners will pass on the road to glory.

Contact me for half or full day custom guided rides and gift certificates, or use The Map to plan your own ride, run, or walk.

A tour bike standing between earth colored cylinder and and tower sculpture with a three story glass wall behind and skyscrapers in the background.
Start Line – In Celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic (Isamu Noguchi, 1976) on the east side of the Chicago Art Institute, 7/23/20. On CBA’s Public Sculpture Map
A tour bike and two people talking in front of a water channel, warehouses turned condos, and skyscraper bases.
Before Mile 1 – The Ogden Slip, 5/10/19. Chicago River & Water System Map
A tour bike leaning on the base of a bronze sculpture of people with umbrellas with two brutalist towers extending upwards in the background.
After Mile 1 – Marina Towers (Bertrand Goldberg, 1967) and the Gentlemen Statues (Ju Ming, 2015), 3/12/19
A tour bike below skyscrapers, one covered with a colorful mural of Muddy Waters.
Mile 2ish – Kobra‘s Muddy Waters on State Street, 5/3/20
A tour bike leaning on a large retro space age swooping green and white gas station pull in cover.
Mile 5ish – Former Standard, now BP (George W Terp, 1971) 2/26/21. Find it on the map for VI Warshawski’s Chicago
A tour bike standing in front of a bronze sculpture of a figure given the stature of a Greek god holding a bird in one hand and a foot propped on a rock with the glass facade of a condo building behind.
After Mile 6 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Monument (Herman Hahn, 1913) 6/20/18. Monuments & Memorials Map
A tour bike leaning on the painted metal fence of a heavily panted colorful gingerbread Queen Anne home.
After Mile 10 – 2142 N Sedgewick (1884) 2/28/19
A tour bike standing at front of a two story brick corner restaurant covered in a colorful cartoon bear themed mural.
After Mile 11 – JC Rivera’s Bear Champ at Broken English, 3/12/19
A tour bike leaning on an SEcond Empire bridge minder house with the river extending in the distance between skyscrapers.
Almost Mile 14 – Adams Street Bridge over the South Branch, 5/9/20. Movable Bridges Map
A tour bike at front of a corner late 1800s brown stone Richardsonian Romanesque church with bright red doors.
Mile 15 – Former Church Of The Epiphany (Edward Burling & Francis Whitehouse, 1885) 11/8/22. Today,  Epiphany Center for the Arts. Church Conversions Map
A tour bike standing at the base of a yellow brick and terra cotta five story 1930 hotel.
Mile 16 – Hotel Chicago West Loop (1930) 11/8/22
A tour bike and leafless trees in front of Brutalist style Science & Engineering Offices at UIC.
Mile 18 – UIC, 1/9/19. UIC is on the map for Stranger than Fiction (2006)
A tour bike leaning on a triple lot Classical Revival limestone four story with a mansard roof and dormer.
Mile 19-20 – Former Czesky Slavonsky Americky Sokol in Pilsen, 1436 W 18th St, 11/30/21
Two CBA bike tour riders posing in front of a road with Chinese style buildings with the Willis Tower skyscraper in the background.
Mile 21-22 – CBA riders in Chinatown 9/19/18. Check out some more recent ride pics.
A tour bike standing in front of a red brick and terra cotta three story box mass Victorian house with carriage entry.
Mile 22-23 – Sidney A Kent House (Burnham & Root, 1883) in Douglas 2/27/19. On CBA’s An 1895 Boulevard Bike Ride Map
A tour bike standing at front of a three story double lot Queen Anne red brick hall with an arched center entrance
Mile 23-24 – Unity Hall (L B Dixon, 1887) in The Gap 8/18/20. On the CBA map for Southern Exposure (Lee Bey, 2019)
A tour bike standing at front of a two story double limestone outlined bay door former fire house.
Mile 25ish – Former Engine Co 104 (1905-1999) in South Loop, 5/17/19. Firehouse Restaurant. CBA’s Former Firehouses Map
A tour bike leaning on a brown metal sculpture of many armless human like striding figures with skyscrapers in the background
Mile 26 – Agora (Magdalena Abakanowicz, 2005-2006) in Grant Park, 3/22/18. Public Sculpture Map

Contact CBA for a custom guided ride that includes some of these sights and for gift certificates for the cyclists in your life. Also, have a look at The Map, where you can plan your own ride, run, or walk around Chicago.

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