“I love it. It’s the most exciting thing a girl can do.” These effusive words came from a 22-year-old woman who took a blow to her abdomen one day in 1951 in Chicago doing what she adored: roller ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Great on Skates is teaching roller skating to a new generation of performers. Indian Bernardino created the group to teach roller skating to people of all ages and backgrounds. She ...

GLENWOOD, Ill. -- "I've been skating since I was six years old. My mom used to come during practice and let me come with her [and] I would see other skaters practicing as well. So one day my mom put ...

*CHICAGO (WBBM) — It’s known as a classic Chicago pastime – good old-fashioned roller skating. You may have visited a neighborhood roller rink, even CBS News personnel took a few spins around recently ...

LOMBARD, Ill. (WLS) -- Roller rinks were once a huge draw for kids and adults alike in most towns, but now they are disappearing from the landscape much in the same way as drive-in movie theaters.

White Castle is covering 50% of the cost of skating (including skate rental) at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Roller Skating Rink in Chicago on Wednesday evenings throughout the month of June, ...

Before teaching her students how to skate, Myesha McCaskill teaches them how to fall. The lesson came in handy on a late February Saturday afternoon, as some of her students — myself included — ...

CHICAGO (WBBM) — It’s known as a classic Chicago pastime – good old-fashioned roller skating. You may have visited a neighborhood roller rink, even CBS News personnel took a few spins around recently.