Thank you to everyone who came and supported West Town Bikes in celebrating 14 years of educating our local youth and fostering Chicago's bicycling community. Together we raised over $30,000 to support youth and community programs provided by WTB in Chicago!
This year, we set some pretty big records:
The over-arching goals of West Town Bikes are to promote bicycling in the city of Chicago, to educate youth with a focus on under-served populations, and to foster and serve Chicago's growing bicycling community. While maintaining headquarters and a workspace in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood, WTB is a city-wide service provider for youth programs in the city of Chicago.
This video captures the story of a summer project at West Town Bikes, where a group of interns learned about urban planning in order to design a bike friendly neighborhood that is more accessible to young people. Free Spirit Media put a lot of work into the video. Their skills and guidence in production, recording and editing made The Circuit look great. Free Spirit Media provides education, access, and opportunity in media production to over 500 underserved urban youth every year and we greatly appreciate their partnership.
Many of our programs are made possible through a partnership with After School Matters. Right now, those programs serve 65 participants from all areas of Chicago. Teens learn about bicycle maintenance and repair, safe riding and cycling for sport, exercise and transportation.
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