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April
 

Date(s)	Ride Name	Start City	State	Mileage	Cost	Contact	Phone	Email
19	Tour de Exchange	Charleston	Il	15/25/50		Deb Hutti		dhutti@lakeland.cc.il.us
20	Easter Ride	University Park	Il	16/50/68	$15 by 4/8 $20 after	David Majkowski	312- 320-8275	davidmajk@ ameritech.net
27	Spring Forward	Union	Il	15/31/62	$15			springforward@ live.com

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Date(s)	Ride Name	Start City	State	Mileage	Cost	Contact	Phone	Email
3	Tour de Stooges	Highland	Il	15 to 64	$30 adults $20 kids	Roger Kramer	618- 236-2793	tourdestooges@ rogerkramercycling.org
3	Ride the Ups and Downs	Elizabeth	Il	25/31/52/61	$15 by 4/30 $20 day of	Annette Bausman	815- 275-0041	bausmana@juno.com
10	Walk and Roll Elgin	Elgin	Il
18	Arlington 500	Barrington	Il	30/44/54/68	$10 by 5/10 $15 after			500@ cyclearlington.com
18	Prairie Pedal	Grayslake	Il	4/7/12/23		Cathy Morgan	847-548-5989 x33	info@libertyprairie.org
18	Walk & Roll North Shore	Skokie	Il	10/30/50	pledges	Lindsay Buhagiar	847-328-5147 x240	lindsay.buhagiar@ cancer.org
18	Walk and Roll Chicago	Chicago	Il	15	pledges			walk.roll@cancer.org
18	Sangamon River Valley Bike Ride	Monticello	Il	16/25/35/43	$15 self $35 family	Debbie Winder	217- 762-4751	dwinder@ mont.hfmgt.com
21	Ride of Silence	Arlington Heights	Il	10 mile loop		Gary Gilbert		rideofsilence@ cyclearlington.com
18	Bike the Lakefront	Chicago	Il
21	Ride of Silence	Chicago	Il	8-12		Elizabeth Adamczyk		rideofsilence.chicago@ gmail.com
21	Ride of Silence	Joliet	Il	8-10		Sara Briese		Sara
21	Ride of Silence	Urbana	Il	7-10		Anthony Cherolis
24	Strawberry Fields Forever	Belleville	Il	14/22/41	$20 adults $10 kids	Mark Cockson	314-644-4660	clerk@ moonlightramble.com
24-25	Blackhawk Country Roads 2008	Rockton	Il	10 to 60	$22 by 4/18 $29 after	Rick Plantz  JB Ferguson	815-399-1404 815-962-4211	rplantz@aol.com twinbike1@aol.com
25	Bike The Drive	Chicago	Il	15/30			312-427-3325	btd07registration @biketraffic.org
31	Flat-As-A- Pancake Century	New Baden	Il	33 to 100	$35	Billie Teneau Pat Kallaos	314-291-7860 314-878-7915	teneau2@sbcglobal.net pekall@sbcglobal.net
31	Bike to Galena Vineyard	Galena	Il	12	$45	Deb Malone	815-776-9425	feverriver@scbglobal.net

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Date(s)	Ride Name	Start City	State	Mileage	Cost	Contact	Phone	Email
1	Udder Century	Union	Il	31/50/62 75/100	$20 by 5/21 $27 after			udder@earthlink.net
7	Pedal for Wishes	Skokie	Il	10/35		Anne Cressy	312- 602-9419	cressy@wishes.org
7-8	Ride for Aids Chicago	Evanston	Il/Wi	180	$1000 min in pledges	Rhett Lindsay	773-989-9400 x233	r.lindsay@tpan.com
8	BCLC Ramble	Wilmot	Il/Wi	12/30/50 70/100	$18 by 6/1 $22 after	Terry Ferguson	847-566-8523	ramble@ bikebclc.com
13-15	Lake Tour Bike Trek	Crystal Lake	Il/Wi	50 daily	2 day $55 by 5/1 3 day $55 by 5/1	Meghan Miller	312-781-1100	mmiller@lungil.org
14	Ogden Lions Benefit Ride	Ogden	Il	12/32/62	$20 by 6/7 $25 after	Bill Gillespie	217- 621-9943	LionE1Z3@ aol.com
15	Swedish Days Ride	Burlington	Il	25/45/62/75 100/124	$18 early $25 day of	Stephanie Girgins		fvbsclub@hotmail.com
15-21	GITAP	Dixon	Il	300 to 550	$365 by 4/1 $375 after	Chuck Oestreich	309- 788-1845	oestreich@ qconline.com
20-21	Le Tour de Shore	Chicago	Il/In/Mi	90	$50	Steve Coughlin	708-261-2905	letourdeshore@ yahoo.com
21-22	Interplanetary Bicycle Ride	Peoria	Il	12 to 100		Sheldon Schafer	309- 686-7000 x145	sschafer@ lakeview-museum.org
21-22	Tour de Farms	DeKalb	Il	Sat 35/75/100 Sun 35/75	Min $300 donations	Patrick Riley	888- 343-1179	bikems@ild.nmss.org
28	Tour for Cancer Century	Freeport	Il	30 to 100		Dave Fonda	815- 616-5341	cycleupperleft-il@gmail.com

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July

 

Date(s)	Ride Name	Start City	State	Mileage	Cost	Contact	Phone	Email
4	Metric Century	Joliet	Il	30/45/60	$15 by 6/20 $20 day of	Joanna Hosteny Dot Curry	773-779-3251 815-210-8067	leh7757@gmail.com bike65@juno.com
5-12	Bicycle Illinois	Cairo	Il	500 to 700	$495 by 1/31 $549 by 6/5	Rob Layton	877- TOUR-ILL	bicycleillinois@ bicycleillinois.com
12	Firecracker 100	Greenville	Il	50 to 100	$35	Judy Meyer Glenda Morrison	314-997-5005 314-894-3748	judy1@mfic.us  gmorrison05@yahoo.com
12/13	The LATE Ride	Chicago	Il	25		Nancy Minster Swabb	773- 918-RIDE	lateride @hotmail.com
19	Tour de Health	Rock Falls	Il	7 family 27/50	$25 by 7/11 $30 day of	Teresa Smith	815-625-0400 x4422	tsmith@cghmc.com
20	Biking with Beanzie	DeKalb	Il	23/46/64/100		Toney Xidis Timothy Duez	815- 758-6873	drbillcpa@ comcast.net
26-27	Peach Pedal	Belleville	Il	14/22/41	$20	Billie Teneau	314- 291-7860	teneau2@sbcglobal.net
27	Oswego Chamber Ride	Oswego	Il	25/50/75/100		Roxana Giese	630- 554-3505	info@ oswegochamber.org
27	Melon Metric XXII	Plano	Il	15/32/62/100	$18 $28 day of	Meredith Wayant	630- 667-3363	merewayant@ hotmail.com

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