The need for a good Chicago bike map has never been greater.
Thankfully those key corridors have reopened with restrictions, and the city has been gradually rolling out several miles of Slow Streets in neighborhoods like South Shore, Kenwood-Oakland, Bucktown, Logan Square, and Ravenswood. But we’re still way behind other U.S. cities. For example, Oakland, California, with a fraction of the population of Chicago, is doing 74 miles of Slow Streets, many times more than our city.
Thanks to the following people who have provided feedback on drafts of this map or helped out in other ways: Anne Alt, Elihu Blanks, Shawn Conley, Jeremy Cuebas, Marissa Dolin, Angela Ford, Carolina Gallo, David Griggs, Anna Gunderson, Katherine Hodges, Paul Fitzgerald, Ronnie Matthew Harris, Paul Halupka, Derrick James, Howard Kaplan, Gin Kilgore, Lynda Lopez, Deloris Lucas, Jake Malooley, Danielle McKinney, Beth Medley, Jacob Peters, James Porter, Anjulie Rao, Eric Allix Rogers, Bill Savage, Yasmeen Schuller, Brian Sobolak, Charlie Short, Peter Taylor, Steven Vance, Vera Videnovich, and Jeff Zoline. The route connecting West Town Bikes, the Bloomingdale Trail, the Logan Square Skate Park, and the Garden Chicago Dirt Jumps was originally brainstormed by students from West Town Bikes and is known as “the Circuit.” v
