They lean quietly, ashen monochrome standing out among stickered newspaper boxes and rusting metal. Flowers, dead or dying, dot the wheels' spokes. Weather-beaten notes and photographs remain — signs the structure is not abandoned so much as purposefully left behind.
These "ghost bikes," old bicycles stripped of extraneous parts and painted white, are chained near the site of fatal cycling crashes. They serve as memorials to the deceased, but also as a statement for cyclist rights in areas where bikers share close quarters with faster, heavier automobiles. Sacred to some, and despised by others, ghost bikes have become a fixture of streetscapes in Chicago and around the world.
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