MAJOR CHICAGO BICYCLING EVENTS.
The last sanctioned League of American Wheelmen high wheel race was the International LAW meet in Chicago on August 7, 1893. Photograph was taken at South Side Park.
On August,10, 1893, the Columbian Exposition held “Wheelmen Day” as over 600 members of the League of American Wheelman Club paraded through the White City.
The Inter Ocean, January 5, 1896
The Second Annual Bicycle Show
Tattershall’s Building
16th and Dearborn Streets
Program for the Eleventh Annual Chicago Road Race (May 31, 1897)
Bicycle parade on South Michigan Avenue, looking north,May 1897
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