A tour bike leaning on a green clothed chain link fence with two hand written signs, one making fun of the other.

Some views from my riding around in the Fall

The Word Cup, an illness, a family holiday, and website issues have messed with my winter blog posting plans so I’m finally getting some of my non map related pictures up. Time for some posting diversity!

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 bicycle leaning on a wall with yellow and red graph and a green cartoon style kung fu monk with no mouth.
Megan Kind in Back of the Yards (The Monk) and others, but unfortunately I’m still too lame to read graph properly (8/23/22)
A tour bike at front of a two story 1890s flat and storefront with wood frame entrance.
2638 W Madison St (1894) in East Garfield Park. 1922 Sanborn Fire map says machine shop. In Polk’s 1928 directory it’s picture frames (11/8/22)
A tour bike leaning on a mural wall of an elder's face done in yellow behind a Black youth looking upward and holding a flower in his palm.
Supreme Mathematics detail (Rahmaan Statik, 2022) in West Woodlawn (9/28/22). Done with the Chicago Public Art Group
A tour bike standing to the side of a yellow brick three story mid-century modern school with a park in the near and the Willis Tower in the far distance.
Robert Nathaniel Dett Elementary in Near West Side (11/8/22)
A tour bike leaning on a white painted wall with a mid-century style metal sign reading Englewood Transit Terminal.
Englewood neighborhood, the terminal was completed in 1969 (8/23/22). I recently used the terminal on the map for Sam Greenlee’s 1969 novel The Spook Who Sat by the Door.
A tour bike leaning on a storefront boarded up with color blocked paintings that may reflect scenes from Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun.
Chris Devins & Jeff Zimmerman (Lorraine Hansberry, top) in Washington Park (9/28/22). Part of this project.
A tour bike at the side of a street with 19th century bay windows and turrets and rowhouses in the distance.
W Monroe & 5th Avenue in East Garfield Park. The rowhouses (Lars Gustav Hallberg, 1887); corner left, 1894 (11/8/22). Chicago Patterns has a great 2015 write up on this Samuel Gross housing edition which was once surrounded by farmland.
A tour bike at front of a single lot two story red brick corner church.
St Peter Word Church in West Woodlawn (Charles Sorenson, 1907) (9/28/22). Built as St Stefan’s Danish Lutheran. The 1950 Sanborn Map records Woodlawn Union Baptist there.
A tour bike standing at front of a one story botanic theme cream terra cotta covered storefront
1520 N Milwaukee Ave (Jens J Meldahl, 1921) in Wicker Park (11/1/22). The terra cotta refront happened in 1924.
A tour bike leaning on the common brick side of a building under a five segment horizontal mural depicting Black woman past and future.
What We Create (Cyd Smillie with I Grow Chicago, 2017) in Englewood (8/23/22). The role of women past, present & future
A tour bike leaning on a green clothed chain link fence with two hand written signs, one making fun of the other.
Someone is doing a bit in Avondale (11/22/22)

Contact CBA for a custom guided ride that includes some of these sights and for gift certificates for the cyclists in your life. Also, this map is just one layer of many on The Map, where you can plan your own ride, run, or walk around Chicago.

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