The Oak Park Cycle Club and Visit Oak Park are pleased to announce that the most successful Wright Ride ever took place on Sunday, August 15, 2010.

The Wright Ride is a fun, interesting tour of the western suburbs with notes about landmark architecture along the route. We hope to do it again in 2011!

Now You Can Sign Up For Two Great Rides and Get a Break!

The classic Boulevard Lakefront Tour returns Aug. 29, 2010 with a fresh spin on a Chicago favorite. This year’s ride features a new start/finish on the UIC campus, plus three fresh routes. Enjoy a 15-mile Neighborhood Ramble, the 32-mile Boulevard Tour or the Chicago Cycling Club designed 62-mile Ultimate Neighborhood Ride. Registration includes an event T-shirt, rest stop access and access to the post-ride festival. Stick around and enjoy live entertainment, delicious food and Goose Island beer.If you sign up for both the Wright Ride and the BLT, you can Save $5 with coupon code WRIGHT5 when you register online at www.boulevardtour.org

Boulevard Lakefront Tour Registration

Save $5 with coupon code WRIGHT5 when you register online at www.boulevardtour.org

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Why Wright?

The Wright Ride is named for one of Oak Park's most famous citizens, Frank Lloyd Wright, who spent the first 20 years of his 70 year career here, building numerous homes that still stand in the community, including his own. He lived and worked in the area between 1889 and 1909. His earliest work can be found here, including the Winslow House in neighboring River Forest. Oak Park boasts many examples of the very first Prairie Style houses, as well as Wright's world-renowned Unity Temple, which was built between 1905-1908.

There were several well-known architects and artists that worked in Wright's Oak Park Studio. Richard Bock, William Eugene Drummond, Marion Mahony Griffin, and Walter Burley Griffin each contributed to Wright's work during this time. Innumerable buildings in Oak Park were built by other Prairie School architects such as Tallmadge and Watson, George W. Maher, Robert C. Spencer, John Van Bergen, and E.E. Roberts. Additionally, there are various architectural styles of the late 19th and early 20th centuries located throughout the town.