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Vendors and donors are being sought for the Northwest Indiana Earth Day Celebration and Reuse Fair next month.

Mundelein police are going to donate 28 unclaimed bicycles to a nonprofit group that will repair them and give them to people who are poor or experiencing other hardships.

In a largely unseen system, abandoned bikes are repaired and shipped to people across the US -- and around the world -- who can use them to travel to school or work.

“This is community,” co-director Paula Acevedo says. “Not a sterile park that could just be in any part of the city. We want it to really identify and show the community, the culture.”

Local cyclist, Xail Hernandez offers la ultima palabra on what claiming a lane did for her health and her spirit, and what she says it can do for yours too.

City of Warrenville City Council met Monday, April 4.