The Boulevard Lakefront Tour is a non-competitive bicycle ride on Lake Shore Drive

Lake Shore Drive

Lake Shore Drive is a mostly freeway-standard expressway running parallel with and alongside the shoreline of Lake Michigan through Chicago, Illinois, USA. Except for the portion north of Foster Avenue , Lake Shore Drive is designated as part of U.S...

 and neighborhood communities in downtown Chicago, Illinois

Bicycling in Chicago

Since the advent of the bicycle in the 1860s, Chicago has been distinguished as one of the premier cycling locations in the United States, with such public cycling destinations as Grant Park, Burnham Park and the Chicago Park District's Lakefront Trail...

, presented by the law firm of Schwartz Cooper and the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation. The event includes 15-mile, 35-mile and 62-mile (or metric century

Century ride

A century ride is a bicycle ride of 100 miles or more within 12 hours, usually as a cycling club-sponsored event. Many cycling clubs sponsor an annual century ride as both a social event for cyclists and as a fund-raiser for the club’s other activities...

) rides.

Nearly 2,200 riders participated in 2005, including several hundred who pedaled the new 62-mile (100 km) Chicago Cycling Club Metric Century.