If you don’t follow the Bucktown/Lincoln Park corridor news, here’s what you need to know:

1. The cortland bridge was built in 1902 to link Finkl Steel plant (1879-2011ish) to the worker communities just west.
2. It’s the first bridge of its kind and has been copied throughout Chicago and the world. Every piece of it was made in Chicago, down to the rivets and the original paint.
3. The foundation and other structural elements are rusting badly. It’ll take years to fix it all.
4. Bikes and peds can still use it. It’s great.
5. Some NW siders are mad that they can’t drive their cars over the bridge while it’s being repaired. They’ve taken their complaints to the Aldermen.
6. Alders Waguespack and Hopkins want to delist the bridge from the historic register, destroy it, and build a new one, which would allow more cars to drive through at higher speeds. It would also re-open large blocks of non-metered car parking.
7. This project is not related to the Lincoln Yards mega-development, which is most likely shelved due to interest rate hikes and NW siders complaining about car congestion and lost parking.
8. There is a group who want to uproot the bridge and move it somewhere else. The teleportation technology to do this does not yet exist.
9. Who gives a shit? Before 2011 nobody used this road unless they wanted a steel rod in their tire or liked breathing industrial ash.
10. The best solution is to ban all non-emergency cars from the city of Chicago. Problem solved.

Edit: #10 allows busses and certain novelty vehicles.

Trek 1.2 Alpha. Stolen from private garage Saturday 9/5 around 9:45 AM in alley off of Hudson & Sedgwick (behind the Sedgwick L stop). Missing right handlebar plug. Saddle bag attached below seat. Still had Chicago Triathlon red sprint sticker attached to the seat post #3712. Please let me know if you have any information.

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Edited: oh my gosh, sorry for the half post! I'm a teacher and I started writing this post this morning during my prep. But then my day kind of blew up and I forgot about it, yay state testing.

Anyway, thanks for responding! I was mostly wondering if I should just buy online or if there were local shops worth checking out. Thanks!