New West Coast Skating Styles Force Windy City Rollers To Step Up Their Game

New West Coast Skating Styles Force Windy City Rollers To Step Up Their Game

"Support each other, assholes!" Beth Amphetamine yells. It's the end of a sweaty August practice for the Windy City Rollers All-Stars, and the hawkeyed cocaptain is giving her teammates her idea of a pep talk.

In the league's practice space, on the second floor of a Humboldt Park loft building, black mats line the walls and the cramped makeshift track smells like boiled rubber. It's humid; the air conditioner is on the fritz.

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