This event was a large-scale (approximately 140 people), 10-mile bike ride through Chicago's South Side neighborhoods, where violence erupted during the Chicago Race Riots of July 1919.
Facilitated by Blackstone Bicycle Works, a community-based nonprofit, and in partnership with other community-based groups, the tour started at the only marker of the riots in the city — at 29th Street and the lakefront — and then moved through the neighborhoods of Bronzeville, Bridgeport, the Stockyards and back to the lake.
We made eight stops at historic points to learn some history, hear from our partners and reflect on the events of 100 years ago.
Chicago's Newberry Library led an eight-stop bike tour that chronicled the riots on their 100th anniversary.