Today I cycled from downtown Chicago to within a mile of the Wisconsin border. One last stay in Illinois, unless the forecast inch of rain tomorrow leads to a rest day.

I have now bicycled all three directions in Chicago. In from the west and out from both north and south. As large cities go, I’ve found it good for cycling with relatively flat terrain, a network of roads and some bike lanes/bike paths as well. Today the first eight miles were city streets and after that a majority of paths but also city streets.

View from the front of the hotel starting at 6am. I am glad I started early as the streets were very quiet.

Downtown with a train in the background behind the bridge.

Example of a protected bike lane. These seem to become more popular.

Entrance to the first path. I saw quite a few jogging before this but also saw many on the path.

Path along a canal.

Skokie had a lot of different sculptures near their path. Rather than just go straight they somehow weaved back and forth.

Gandhi statue in Skokie

Intermission between paths, this one in an area with brick streets.

Long sections of the path looked like this.

Not difficult to get past this tree work

In the last 20 miles a majority of the path was gravel.

Waukegan had these obnoxious crossings multiple times in a mile at every cross street.

Lunch spot. It was tasty.

Without much difficulty, I found my way to a motel just south of the border. Today was flat and not difficult riding. Also as an update, Amtrak left a message that they apologized for the delay yesterday and would follow with a travel voucher. Nice gesture, particularly as our train seemed to have many people making connections to other trains.