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Suburban Chicago Bicycling

Local bicycling news brewin': Projects happening or hopefully happening

Published 3 months ago • 1 min read

Imagine a bike path along Higgins out west

Could this sidewalk running past Hoffman Estates High School off Higgins Road become a real, 10-foot-wide bike path for students and others? The villages of Schaumburg and Hoffman Estates are studying the possibility of a path east to Roselle Road — even all the way to Martingale Road someday.

This is done

In Bellwood, the Illinois Prairie Path has been reconfigured a little so bicyclists really cross 25th Avenue at Madison Street rather than dodge traffic.

But these projects are still far away

Meanwhile, an off-road path is being planned along a stretch of Central Road to Rolling Meadows High School. But it won't be finished until 2030. Who knows when a multi-use path off Route 22 between Route 83 and Quentin Road in Kildeer and Long Grove will get done? And Schaumburg is looking at further shifting bike lanes to off-road paths on Weathersfield Way.

Happening soon in Lake County

Gaps in the bike path off Washington Street through Third Lake and Gurnee to the Des Plaines River Trail could really be getting filled in Lake County this year.

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Suburban Chicago Bicycling

Neil Holdway

Your one-stop source for the great trails and roads to ride a bicycle in Chicago's suburbs, and to learn about efforts to make bicycling and bicycling infrastructure better there.

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