Chanting "Save the Spindle," about 2,000 bicyclists took to thestreets Friday night to protest the proposed replacement of a Berwynart piece -- made famous in a "Wayne's World" movie -- with aWalgreens.
The bikers, who typically take part in the monthly ChicagoCritical Mass rides, rode 14.8 miles from the Daley Center Plaza inthe Loop to Cermak Plaza in Berwyn, in an attempt to save theendangered Spindle artwork, also known as the Eight Car Pileup.
The automobiles are stuck on a steel pipe.
"A trip to the Spindle is a bike ride that a lot of us havemade," said Dan Korn, a 36-year-old Little Village resident who hasparticipated in Critical Mass rides for …
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