What Is Your Happy Place?
Everyone should have a happy place—ideally, a few. These days, mine is a broad stretch of concrete on the lakefront just north of Division Street beach. For most of the year, it’s little more than …
Clare Curley
Early American Bicycles Gave Us Suffragettes and Weird Facial Expressions
"Bicycling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world." -- Susan B. Anthony Bikes in cities are like the horses of the Wild West. They can release us from traffic snarls, fr…
Dress for Success…on a Bike
May 16 – 20 was Chicago Bike to Work Week. It encouraged people to join the hundreds of Chicagoans who regularly commute by bike—about 1.3 percent of workers, according to the U.S. Census. A cause…
Cautionary Tales on Two Wheels
I once came across a stapler in my parents’ den and wondered: What would happen if I stapled my thumb? I inserted my left thumb nail downward, pounded the stapler with my right fist, and screamed as t…
The Women of Bike Swap 2016
Chicago-area cyclists unite annually at Bike Swap to shop for bikes, bike parts, bike clothes and accessories. We also swap stories over beer and meet other cycling enthusiasts. A lot of women showed …
Why Bike?
My garage door opened the other day to reveal my neighbor’s 4-year-old daughter standing on the other side, bundled up to her chin in pink and grey. “Hi!” she belted out in a raspy voice. It was a…
Q&A with Roseanna Ander, founding executive director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab and Urban Education Lab
Roseanna Ander, the founding executive director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab and Urban Education Lab , has dedicated her life to solving problems related to poverty and urban violence. She’s…
Chicago choreographer Sherry Zunker created BeMoved fitness classes ‘to connect people’
Sherry Zunker's choreography has been performed by The Joffrey Ballet, River North Chicago Dance Company and Giordano Dance Chicago. The artistic director of River North from 1990 to 2001, her latest …
