West Town Bikes
Address: 2459 W Division Street
Chicago, IL 60622
Phone: 7737726523
West Town Bikes NFP (WTB) is a community bicycle learning workshop offering bicycle mechanics instruction, youth programs and special events to members of the community. WTB is also used as a creative workspace for special bicycle building, utilitarian human powered design, kinetic art, advocacy projects and constructive creation. WTB has provided youth programming since 2004 through the flagship youth program BickerBikes. This earn-a-bike summer program teaches bicycle mechanics in conjunction with safe cycling skills. All of our youth programs focus on teaching young men and women independence, professional skills, environmental stewardship and the importance of exercise and good nutrition.
In 2006, WTB was incorporated as a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. The overreaching goals of WTB 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 the workspace in Chicago’s West Town neighborhood. WTB has become a city-side service provider for youth programs in the City of Chicago.
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