NATO and the LFP by McCormick Place?

So, I bike to work every day on the LFP from Hyde Park to Fullerton or thereabouts. I go right by McCormick Place every day and now this NATO thing has me paranoid that I'm going to have to plan to ride out of my way for several days in order to get to work. I figure worse case scenario I get off the path at 31st and ride up King Drive until I can get back on the path up by the Museum Campus. That's potentially an okay work around but I'm sure it'll add quite a few extra minutes to the ol' morning commute. Driving my car is likely to be a headache too, because I'd either get held up going by McCormick or I'd have to get to work by going over onto the Dan Ryan to bypass Lakeshore Drive south. Anyway, I sent an email to the city website set up to answer questions about the NATO summit and they essentially had no useful info on whether access to the path would be restricted or whether they would be issues with protesters blocking it, etc. I was told to sign up for some city website that sends out alerts on closures and such. Does anyone have any other info on possible closures or restrictions?

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Permalink Reply by Joe Willis on May 21, 2012 at 4:12am

After reading all of this thred and seeing some of the news I think i picked a good weekend to go out of the country!

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Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on May 21, 2012 at 9:07am

riding on the path near Belmont yesterday I saw bike cops with riot masks on.

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Permalink Reply by JeffB on May 21, 2012 at 10:23am

One benefit to all the closures: I got a short preview of Bike the Drive this morning. Rode from Monroe to Balbo in the southbound lanes :) Saw someone in the northbound lanes too.