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Skate Day

At the Go Skate Day event in Grant Park, participants could learn to skateboard or enter competitions like a head-to-head race or “longest ollie.”

Skate Day

At the Go Skate Day event in Grant Park, participants could learn to skateboard or enter competitions like a head-to-head race or “longest ollie.”

Skateboarders shred in Chicago’s Grant Park on Go Skate Day

At the Go Skate Day event in Grant Park, participants could learn to skateboard or enter competitions like a head-to-head race or “longest ollie.”
By Lauren Frost
   

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On the longest day of the year, hundreds of people came to downtown Chicago with skateboards, scooters, and roller skates for Go Skate Day 2023. This audio postcard brings you to Grant Skate Park, to hear boarders stick some tricks and muse on what skating means to them.

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