WOODLAWN — The Chicago Cycling Club is leading a bike tour of Woodlawn, and you’ll definitely need to bring your imagination for part of it.
The tour starts at 9:30 a.m. Sept. 9 at Rockefeller Chapel at 5850 S. Woodlawn Ave. on the University of Chicago campus. From there it winds south, ending at Oak Woods Cemetery.
The tour led by George Vrechek will go by many of the historic sites of the city that have remained largely unchanged for years, like sculptor Loredo Taft’s “Fountain of Time” and nearby Midway Studios, and the more recent landmarks that have sprung up along the southern edge of the university’s campus.
But imagination will be necessary for stops that look back on a forgotten past and forward into the unrealized future.
The tour will stop at the former sites of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, the Washington Park racetrack and the Sans Souci Amusement Park as well as the future site of the Obama Presidential Center.
The total ride will be 10 miles with a break at the Shrine of Christ the King, with a chance to rest at the priory and hear about the church’s effort to recover from a fire last year.
The rides are free for members of the cycling club, which charges $20 for a single membership and $25 for a family membership.
For more information, email Vrecheck at vrechek@ameritech.net.
