Even in the heyday of the bike messenger business in the late 1980s — when an estimated 1,500 couriers zoomed around the streets of the Loop — there were fears the fax machine could end the need for ...

There was a time when it felt like you couldn't drive downtown without almost mowing down a bike messenger, or take a courthouse elevator without squeezing next to one or two or five of them. Or open ...

I knew I’d arrived when I saw the kaleidoscope of bikes. I was greeted by Sam Crossland—a courier with long, auburn hair and a surfer’s inflection—who introduced me to a pod of messengers. Some wore ...

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