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Break The Gridlock was chartered as a not-for-profit Illinois corporation in the State of Illinois on September 1st, 2000. On March 5th, 2008 we awarded a 501(c)(3) determination by the I.R.S. retroactive to our founding. Our tax payer identification number is available on request.

2011 Board Members

Gin Kilgore, Board President
For over ten years, Gin has volunteered on many projects that promote cycling and reduce car usage in the Chicago area. She is a co-founder of grassroots projects like Break the Gridlock, Bike Winter and Cycling Sisters, and is currently involved with efforts, such as Kidical Mass, that inspire families to bike with kids. She loves helping people discover that their bike can be an all season, all (or at least most) circumstance form of transportation and knows many people who have sold their cars as a result. In the early aughts, she worked as a transportation planner at the Chicago Area Transportation Study (now CMAP), providing technical support to municipalities on pedestrian and bicycle planning throughout the region. She currently works part time as a program manager at the League of Illinois Bicyclists.

Alex Wilson, Vice President
Alex is a long time contributor to Chicago’s cycling community. He helped bring a positive spirit to the early days of Chicago’s Critical Mass rides with free T-shirts and flags, and by publishing The Derailleur, “the unofficial zine of Critical Mass.” By encouraging others to get involved with making the T-shirts, flags and the zine, he also helped build a community of activists. In 2004, Alex started a youth earn a bike program, which eventually evolved into West Town Bikes where he now serves as Executive Director. The overreaching goals of West Town Bikes are to promote bicycling in the city of Chicago, to educate youth with a focus on under-served populations, and to foster and serve Chicago's growing bicycling community.

Todd Gee, Secretary/Treasurer
Todd promoted living car-light/car-free for years before moving to Chicago around 2000. He advocates participation in Critical Mass style bicycle rides and has actively promoted and participated in such rides in many cities across the country. In Chicago, he helped revive Break the Gridlock and has organized the bikegeek movement which has given an online presence to many appropriate transportation grass roots efforts. When not at a computer, Todd rides his bike year round and encourages others to do so as well, including his young daughters.

Todd Allen
Todd Allen is a retired video game programmer now working as an activist with several peace and justice organizations in Chicago. His interest in sustainable transportation, and bicycling in particular, motivated him to join the board of Break the Gridlock, where he helped get the monthly Kidical Mass rides off the ground. He is interested in all aspects of sustainable living. He has given presentations and run workshops on low input year round urban food gardening and composting. And he is a builder of electric bicycles.

Andrew Bedno
Andrew Bedno in Chicago bicycling may be best known as the “coordinator” for the World Naked Bike Ride – Chicago (http://ChicagoNakedRide.org). Chicago’s participation in this event is among the planet’s largest, routinely exceeding 1000 riders. Andrew is an adamant bicycling activist, being old enough to have seen the folly of the oil path since the 1970s. He also participates heavily in Chicago Critical Mass and Chicago Ghost Bikes projects. Andrew is also a senior programmer, web and mobile developer, and he applies these skills to bicycling causes. His newest venture, http://MassUp.us is a revolutionary navigation and communications tool for cyclists, which evolved from this combination of experiences. His current priorities are growing MassUp.us, member site maintenance, and making improvements to the utility of our sizable contacts database.

Tony Giron
Tony recently joined the board of Break the Gridlock. He works at the Active Transportation Alliance on their Better Blocks initiative, with a focus on reaching out to Latino communities. He also brings project management experience gained while developing Loyola University’s successful Borrow-a-Bike program.

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