Whatever in the heck was going on with the original Lincoln Square listing, I have no idea, but people kept telling me it was being held every day from its original start date for something like 90 years. 

I have no idea why, because when I looked at it ended the same day, same year as it started.  Anyway, it is a new listing for the same tour, BUT on a different date due to Tour de Fat, which is on the 16th, but wasn't announced when I originally planned the ride.  I would be ashamed of myself to run this event on the same day as Tour de Fat though! 

Artwork and our webpage will be update soon, but posters are going to have to undergo some reconstructive surgery for the ones being placed someplace.  For purchase ones will contain the original date in an homage to Dewey Defeats Truman.

So anyway...Chicago Community Area #4 sits 7 miles northwest of the loop. The community area was a construct of a 1920s University of Chicago project to categorize different areas of the city, but it is also a neighborhood within the community area, as are Ravenswood, Bowmanville, Budlong Woods and Ravenswood Manor. Previously this entire area was known as Ravenswood, and many residents still think of it that way. Formerly a farming community for celery and pickles, the area developed as the transportation access to the area increased. Families used to cart their goods to the city along Little Fort Road, today’s Lincoln Avenue. In the 1890s, street cars created a new wave of development. In the 1900s, it was the Ravenswood elevated line and it spurred even more development. Utilizing the river and developing an industrial corridor on its banks was a further boom leading into the Great Depression. The area is filled with wonderful examples of bungalows, brick-flats, courtyard apartments and various Victorian houses and a number of requisite works by Clarence Hatzfeld, Dwight Perkins and Louis Sullivan.

The ride is at a slow and relaxed pace and all riders must wear a helmet. You can pay $10 at the tour, or save a buck by registering in advance.  Visit our tour page for more info and for registering, getting posters, etc.

http://www.bigshouldersrealty.com/things/tours/2011.php

Cheers - Lee