Night Tour of Near North

The goal of the Night tours is to create an interesting way to see an area with densely packed features and stops.  The night becomes our filter, and we will focus our stops on buildings and locations that look particularly wonderful at night.  The tour is longer than the free mini-tour held two days earlier, and riders that experience both will ride two very different tours.  Riders on the night tour are encouraged to have front and rear lights mounted on their bikes and/or helmet and/or person.

This year, we will explore the Near North Side, just north of the city’s central business district, the Loop.  The Near North Side is Chicago Community Area #8.  It is home to many of the city’s most famous buildings, cultural institutions, neighborhoods and historical figures.  The tour will offer riders a night ride through the Magnificent Mile, the Gold Coast, Streeterville, River North, Old Town, SoNo, and Goose Island.  We will visit dozens of city and national landmarks and discuss and learn about buildings from the likes of Dwight Perkins, Holabird and Roche, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Adler and Sullivan, John Welbourn Root, Daniel Burnham, Henry Ives Cobb, Marshall and Fox, Howard Van Doren Shaw, Fugard and Knapp, Joseph Lyman Silsbee, Schmidt, Garden and Martin, Alfred Ahlschuler and scores of other legendary architects.