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Chicago Ghost Bikes

This group is intended to be used as a tool for tracking information and getting ghost bikes made and placed.

Website: http://bikechicago.info/ghostbikes
Members: 48
Latest Activity: Jun 13, 2019

Please:

-start a separate discussion to collect information on, discuss, and plan for each victim.

-take the time, if possible, to assist by helping track down missing information or details.

-try to post information to pertinent discussions rather than to the comment wall, so we can find it down the road, or otherwise stated, avoid posting discussion to the comment wall for which there is a discussion thread started.

-feel free to add past victims who were never memorialized, or start discussions about existing ghost bikes and/or their victims.

Discussion Forum

Leanid Belabarody, 53, Ashland and Noble, 10/31/2012 4 Replies

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Started by h' Zerocats. Last reply by Tom A.K. Oct 31, 2018.

Jacqueline Marie Michon, 25, Wabash/Wacker, Aug 5 2011 5 Replies

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Started by h' Zerocats. Last reply by Tom A.K. Jul 26, 2018.

Too many Ghost Bikes in Toronto?

Sharing a recent article about the Ghost Bike situation in Toronto. Sad.https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-44746889…Continue

Started by Tom A.K. Jul 16, 2018.

Chicago 2017 Cycling Fatalities: 8* (*1 transit-related) - Ride of Silence Tomorrow Night 5-16-18 1 Reply

'Chicago Ghost Bikes / Ghost Bikes Chicago' - Cycling Community Group(s) Chicago 2017 Cycling Fatalities: 8* (*1- transit-related) +REST IN…Continue

Started by Tom A.K.. Last reply by Tom A.K. May 15, 2018.

Brian McDevitt, 30, 135th and Ridgeland, June 21 2013 (June 11) 2 Replies

http://truenewsusa.blogspot.com/2013/06/chicago-police-officer-brian-mcdevitt.html…Continue

Started by h' Zerocats. Last reply by Tom A.K. Dec 15, 2017.

Joseph Korner, 78, 3559 North Lincoln, November 6, 2014 7 Replies

Joseph Korner, 78, 3559 North Lincoln, November 6, 2014Hi, I'm hoping for a little help. I was contacted this morning by Lindy Korner, widow of cyclist Joseph Korner who was bicycling north near 3559 North Lincoln in Lakeview when he was hit by a…Continue

Started by Yasmeen. Last reply by Yasmeen Jul 1, 2016.

Question concerning maintenance 4 Replies

Hello everyone,     I was wondering if permission is needed to do a little maintenance/upkeep on an already existing Ghost Bike.  I don't want to change anything about it, just clean around it, add a new coat of paint, maybe add some flowers. …Continue

Started by Dion McGill. Last reply by Tom A.K. Sep 6, 2015.

Ghost bikes taken down? 5 Replies

Advance apologies: new to the community. A while back in December I was biking to various ghost bike locations. A friend of mine started cataloging personal stories and encounters with ghost bikes in San Fransisco and I was looking to do the same in…Continue

Started by Bonnie Fantastic. Last reply by Andrew Bedno Feb 10, 2015.

Frederick Kobrick, 30, 18th/Racine, 8/23/2011 11 Replies

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Started by h' Zerocats. Last reply by h' Zerocats Jan 31, 2015.

Ghost bikes taken down?

Advance apologies: new to the community.  A while back in December I was biking to various ghost bike locations. A friend of mine started cataloging personal stories and encounters with ghost bikes in San Fransisco and I was looking to do the same…Continue

Started by Bonnie Fantastic Jan 28, 2015.

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Comment by Andrew Bedno on November 3, 2011 at 11:33pm

I put up a page for the newest:

http://bedno.com/body/ghostbikes/details/patrick_thomas_stack

More backstory welcome.

 

Patrick Thomas Stack

707 N Orleans, NE corner at Huron

Built and installed by unknown, 32 years after the fact.
Chicago Sun-Times - Tuesday, July 25, 1989
Bicyclist struck by truck, killed
A 26-year-old bicyclist riding between two tractor-trailer trucks was killed Monday when he was struck and pinned beneath the wheels of one of the vehicles, police said.
Patrick Stack, of 705 W. Brompton, was riding his bike northbound near 707 N. Orleans about 3p.m. when he was hit, said Police Traffic Specialist Kenneth Smith. Stack was pronounced dead at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Comment by Andrew Bedno on October 26, 2011 at 7:40am

Mannequins representing dead pedestrians were placed along Wacker D....

Comment by h' Zerocats on October 19, 2011 at 11:07pm

Andrew, sorry this has been hard to follow-- it all played out in several threads on the main forum due to almost nobody ever checking in to this group.

I like to think I wouldn't post that a bike had been removed if it hadn't been.

Would it be possible to keep your wonderful resource up:

http://bedno.com/ghosts

but make it a little harder to get a nice list of where all the ghost bikes are?

Please?

It would take someone with a bolt cutters and a pickup truck all of 2 hours to remove most of them.

 

Kathy, who mentioned Kinzie or Hubbard?

Comment by Kathy Schubert 'n Suzy Schnauzer on October 19, 2011 at 9:56pm
I think the Patrick Thomas Stack bike is at Huron and Orleans, not Kinzie or Hubbard.
Comment by Kevin C Dormant on October 19, 2011 at 8:17pm
Jepson Livingston's bike was removed the end of September by unknown person or persons. It was replaced on the evening of October 6th, and in time for his birthday on October 8th.
Comment by E A on October 19, 2011 at 8:08pm
I just saw his bike there last night... @ Diversey and Avers.
Comment by Andrew Bedno on October 19, 2011 at 8:05pm

So, Jepson Livingston's bike has been removed for sure?  Can I get a second confirmation?  I saw some hubub, but not a finale.

I wouldn't extrapolate a few haters too far.  Plenty of the bikes are cherished by their neighborhoods.

 

In Steven's August 2011 CCM video Kathy shows a photo of a (retroactive) new one north a few blocks of the Merchandise Mart on a NE corner which I presume is Orleans at Kinzie or Hubbard, for Patrick Thomas Stack (8/8/62-7/24/89).

Comment by h' Zerocats on October 16, 2011 at 11:00am

Andrew, you missed the whole brouhahaha with the guy from Everyblock and the Sun Times article I think. The rest of the bike was removed by a friendly chainlinker due to charges of "rotting bikes" not being maintained.

In light of the removal of Jepson Livingston's ghost bike I think it may be time to remove lists of Chicago ghost bike locations from public view. Would you be able to help with that process?

Comment by Andrew Bedno on September 28, 2011 at 10:35am

FYI, the ghost bike formerly at Lincoln/Damen/Irving is now definitely gone.  Here's my archived photo and info:

http://bedno.com/body/ghostbikes/details/matthew_manger_lynch

 

This was not entirely unexpected.  It was de-named a few years ago, then last winter crews pulled up the entire rack and bike and set it aside for construction.  I'd added a sign notifying to whom it may concern to please restore it when construction was completed and giving some contact and context info.  Over the months it's been confirmed still present in that configuration with sign several times.  But a few weeks ago Jera mentioned not seeing it so we scoped a block around, all corners, no trace.

Comment by Chicago Ride of Silence on May 17, 2011 at 11:28am

Let the BLOG ROLL BEGIN! Please repost this post on your blog (if you have one) and comment on this post. Who do you remember during the Ride of Silence?

 

http://www.bikecommuters.com/2011/05/17/ros-honor-roll/
 

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