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Potosi Brewing Company. All photos by Dave Schlabowske.
[This piece also appeared in Checkerboard City, John's weekly transportation column in Newcity magazine, which hits the streets on Wednesday evenings.]
The Badger State is where I go when I want to get away from my daily grind in Chicago and leave my troubles behind. [...]
Eric McAfee and Kevin Kastner on the Indianapolis Cultural Trail.
[This piece also appeared in Checkerboard City, John's weekly transportation column in Newcity magazine, which hits the streets in print on Thursdays.]
If I had to sum up Indianapolis in one word, it would be “Underrated.” With a population of 829,718, the Hoosier [...]
Todd on the sailboat American Excess.
[This piece also appeared in Checkerboard City, John's weekly transportation column in Newcity magazine, which hits the streets in print on Thursdays.]
It always bugs me when people say Chicago’s a great city but complain that there’s no access to natural beauty or outdoor adventure here. True, there [...]
Wolfgang Scherreiks with his English-made Pashley Guv’nor.
It’s ironic that I’ve written dozens of articles about efforts to make Chicago more like the bike-friendly cities of northern Europe, but until recently I’d never actually been to any of these places. Last month I finally made the trip across the pond to check out bike [...]
Sunset near Muskegon, MI.
[This piece also ran in Newcity magazine.]
One reason I’m glad I’ve cycled coast-to-coast a couple of times is that I feel like I’ve got nothing to prove when it comes to bike touring. As long as I’ve got my bicycle with me and get a few miles of pedaling [...]
Bill Savage at the McKinley Park lagoon.
[This piece also appeared in Checkerboard City, John's weekly transportation column in Newcity magazine, which hits the streets in print on Wednesday evenings.]
“Nelson Algren wrote, ‘It isn’t hard to love a town for its greater and its lesser towers, its pleasant parks or its flashing ballet,’” [...]
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