History
Blackstone Bicycle Works opened on Chicago's South Side in 1994 as a project of the Resource Center, the city's oldest and largest non-profit recycler. The shop grew out of a need to utilize the abundance of bikes encountered in the waste stream and a desire to explore avenues of alternative education in the local community. After a fire in 2001, Blackstone Bikes operated out of trailer provided by the Resource Center and on property generously loaned by the University of Chicago. In 2006, Blackstone Bikes returned to 6100 S. Blackstone Ave as a program of the non-profit Experimental Station, with improved facilities to better educate more youth and to store and repair bicycles.
Specialties
Bicycle repair and maintenance, affordable refurbished bicycles for sale, tax-deductible bicycle donation center, youth training.