{"id":386,"date":"2015-10-15T17:57:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T22:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2015-10-15T17:57:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T22:57:36","slug":"scvas-open-house-chicago-visitor-weekend-and-painting-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"SCVA&#8217;s Open House Chicago Visitor Weekend and Painting Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, Saturday &amp; Sunday Oct. 17-18, is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/openhousechicago.org\/sites\/site\/chicago-lakeside-development\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open House Chicago<\/a>\u00a0with visitor sites nearby in South Chicago. Lakeside\u2019s Welcome Center 8555 S. Greenbay Rd. will be open 9-5 both days with their bus tours of the US Steel site running hourly 10-4. The bus tour drives by the velodrome twice during each bus tour and the guide usually has commentary about the track and it&#8217;s history. We&#8217;ll have our\u00a0gates open too, 9am-5pm on both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1239204932771595\/?ref=22&amp;action_history=null&amp;source=22\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday (fb page)<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1632179407031576\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday (fb)<\/a>, and you&#8217;re\u00a0invited to come by for a variety of casual recreational and volunteer activities.\u00a0Not on Facebook? Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thechainlink.org\/events\/event\/listByType?type=south+chicago+velodrome+association\" target=\"_blank\">theChainlink<\/a> or export to your calendar for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thechainlink.org\/events\/open-house-chicago-visitor-weekend\/export\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thechainlink.org\/events\/scva-open-house-chicago-visitor-weekend\/export\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Casual riding&#8221; on the track (below Stayers&#8217; Line) will be allowed when work isn&#8217;t being performed and the surface is clear.<\/li>\n<li>Painting signs (see below)- medium to large-sized, on plywood.<\/li>\n<li>Patch-work on the track surface.<\/li>\n<li>Finer repair work on the small fissures and the apron.<\/li>\n<li>Assembly of monster-sized erector set (ADA ramp).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Feel free to bring friends and food to add to the grill!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SCVA-Trailer-Pablo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-387\" src=\"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SCVA-Trailer-Pablo1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Trailer- Needs Painting\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SCVA-Trailer-Pablo1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SCVA-Trailer-Pablo1-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As mentioned above we&#8217;re looking\u00a0to design, prep and paint some signs for the property fence-line as well as design, prep and paint two trailers with murals and we need the community&#8217;s help in all ways. \u00a0Some signs will be painted during Open House but most paint-work will be in the coming weeks. \u00a0Basic information and contact\/interest <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/OkVBQmDBxs\" target=\"_blank\">form is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, lots of ways to get down to the track:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Car-pool to conserve energy! \ud83d\ude42 Email info@ChicagoVelodrome.com or join the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/493262917494235\/\">Facebook Planning and Volunteer Group<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The Velodrome is only two blocks West of the Lakefront Path.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/metrarail.com\/metra\/en\/home\/maps_schedules\/metra_system_map\/me\/station.87TH-SC.html\" target=\"_blank\">METRA stop<\/a>\u00a0(24 min. from Millennium Station) is 2 blocks away and allows bikes on trains.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, Saturday &amp; Sunday Oct. 17-18, is\u00a0Open House Chicago\u00a0with visitor sites nearby in South Chicago. 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The bus tour drives by the velodrome twice during each bus tour and the guide usually has commentary about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}