Ignaz Schwinn’s first factory was on Chicago Avenue and Peoria Street but soon moved to its permanent home at North and Kostner avenues in Hermosa. “Fifty Years of Schwinn-built Bicycles ...

Schwinn Bicycle Company single handedly shaped bicycle culture across the country for decades, all while maintaining their strong Chicago identity through four generations of family ownership.

But it turns out that the Schwinn Sports Tourer of a certain vintage is a relatively sought-after set of wheels, thanks to the highly skilled manufacturers of the old Chicago Schwinn factory ...

the top American executive in the joint venture at the time Schwinn went bankrupt, confirmed in a telephone interview from Chicago. Nonetheless, Schwinn did boost Csepel’s manufacturing ...

He is great-great-grandson of founder Ignaz Schwinn, who started making bicycles in 1895 in Chicago, where the firm is still based. ”We wanted to keep something going in the U.S. We`ve been ...

But nothing ever could replace my first bicycle.” “I still ride a Schwinn Super Sport that was made in Chicago in 1970. It rides great. 15 years ago I bought a mountain bike made in China to ...

Imports held only a sliver of the market when Schwinn dominated the industry. It was founded in Chicago in the 1890s but rose to prominence through Depression-era innovation that redefined the ...

For locally manufactured bikes, Mike Mitchell is the man to see. Schwinn shut down its Chicago factory in 1983, but Mitchell restores Chicago-made models from the 1960s and ’70s, taking them ...

The event, called Schwinn Provisions, was a dinner party hosted by the new pop-up series Drop Leaf Dinners, dedicated to celebrating “accidentally iconic” places in Chicago—which cofounder ...

"He savors his privacy." Reached at the Cheese Box by telephone, Mr. Schwinn declined to be interviewed. The Schwinns were among the Chicago industrial families to have summer getaways on the ...

CHICAGO (CBS)--An SUV hit a bike shop in Oak Park overnight and caused the building to collapse. The SUV hit the Barnard's Schwinn bicycle store on North Avenue around 10:20 p.m. NEW: Video I got ...

MADISON, Wis. -- In the glass atrium that marks the entrance to the Pacific Cycle company, the old and the new of the bicycle business are displayed side by side. Each is called the Schwinn Sting ...