The way points of this bicycle route:
Bubble gum: Wrigley Building, 400 N. Michigan Ave. Seltzer: Jewell Water Co., 557 W. Fulton. Sold seltzer to speakeasies during Prohibition. Beer: Schoenhofen Brewery, 18th and Canalport. Brewed Edelweiss beer & invented Green River to stay in business during Prohibition. Soda: Filbert's Root Beer, 3430 S. Ashland. Last of the local independent bottlers. Decomposition: Bubbly Creek, 35th St. bridge. Don't fall in! Open sewer for the Stockyards (1875-1971). By the 1990s the only living organisms were huge numbers of bloodworms feeding on the two meters of rotting blood in the bed of the creek. Bubbles and Bikes: Bubbly Dynamics, 1048 W. 37th - Home to Lloyd Cycles and formerly the Rat Patrol! Soap: Stockyards Gate, 41st. and Peoria; home to Armour Soap Factory & Rendering Plant Bubble Dancing: Burnham Park was the location of the Century of Progress Midway, where Sally Rand did her bubble dance.
