• » Wednesday night racing will return to West Chicago next Wednesday, May 4.
• » The Leland Grand Prix, No. 4 on the CBR top 20 list, has been postponed because of road construction.
• » Wheels on Willy, No. 18 on the CBR top 20 list, moves to a research park in Fitchburg, Wis., because of road construction. It remains on Sunday, May 15.
• » The 2011 Ronald Reagan Criterium course returns to some of the streets used in the 2009 edition, which if memory serves includes some fun hills. With the finish line up on Peoria, the course resembles the much-loved Downers Grove course more than ever. Registration is open.
• » Fox River Grove registration opens Friday, including a brief clydesdale race for the big boys.
• » Meet the racers of the Northbrook Velodrome.

Rob Curtis (Psimet) has stepped up to revive the May 15 criterium in Fox River Grove, receiving village board approval last night.

Vernon Hills remains canceled, but this effort saves one of the most distinctive races on our calendar.

The race will not be part of the Illinois Cup and may not have the full range of categories, although the schedule isn’t final yet.

Curtis says if the race makes any money it will be split between Big Brothers Big Sisters of McHenry County and the Village of Fox River Grove. “I am only doing this to save the race,” he says. “I feel and the board feels that continuity is most important.”

• » Liz So (Team Tati) is behind Chicago Women’s Bike Racing. I like her style.
• » The South Chicago Wheelmen’s Tuesday night criterium series has begun.
• » Meet Tuxedo Thunder.
• » This Friday Working Bikes Collective is showing “With My Own Two Wheels,” a documentary about how bicycles improve lives around the world, including through World Bicycle Relief.
• » Francine Haas (Alberto’s) is leading a women’s track clinic on Saturday, April 30.

• » Sunday is Half Acre Cycling’s clinic for women, which in fact starts Thursday evening with a Q&A at Johnny Sprockets’ Broadway location.
• » Promoter RDS Cycling has pulled Vernon Hills and Fox River Grove from the calendar, although there is a movement afoot to save them. E-mail me if you think your team help and I’ll put you in touch with the right people. Should these races not be saved, Monsters of the Midway will be the only race within an hour of the city until Cobb Park in late June.
• » Registration closes tonight for Saturday’s Leland Kermesse. It’s like Hillsboro-Roubaix, but closer and not as easy.
• » David Veilleux (Europcar) was off the front for much of Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix and finished 25th. The 23-year-old has a strong local race history: Racing for Kelly Benefit Strategies, he won August’s Glencoe Grand Prix and the 2008 Tour of Elk Grove.
• » Northbrook Velodrome’s racing schedule is online.

• » A large collection of photos from a windy Hillsboro-Roubaix.
• » Meet Union Cycling.
• » The Glencoe Grand Prix has released information about its 2011 race. Note that there will be a separate Cat 2 race for a Cat 2 state championship. (Cat 1 state championship will go to the first Illinois Cat 1 to finish the invitation-only P/1 race.) Registration opens Friday.
• » The next race in the 2011 Illinois Cup is Saturday’s Sherman Park Criterium. Registration closes tomorrow.
• » Registration is open for Monsters of the Midway as well as for the May 21-22 weekend of racing in Champaign: Saturday’s Rumble at the Reservoir and Sunday’s Downtown Champaign Grand Prix.
• » Johnny Sprockets is hosting a Paris-Roubaix viewing party Sunday.