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Bicycling

Map: Where drivers have fatally struck people biking on Chicago’s Milwaukee Avenue

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Failure to create safe cycling conditions on Milwaukee leads to second bike death at Kilbourn

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BMW driver fatally struck Gerardo Marciales, 41, as he crossed DLSD on a Divvy bike

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Jose Velásquez, 16, fatally struck by trucker, remembered at gathering on The 606

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Jose Velásquez, 16, is the latest bike rider killed by a turning trucker who failed to yield

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Drivers killed 2 female pedestrians in West Ridge, man on bike in Back of the Yards

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2nd person in 2 months is killed on stretch of Milwaukee where road diet was blocked

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Driver killed cyclist Jason Hardt, 48, on road where protected bike lanes were removed

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After 2 cyclist deaths, Logan/Western is finally getting road diet, protected lanes

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Witnesses discuss George Sawicki’s bike crash death near Soldier Field

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