Kim Stewart would liked to have spent Saturday morning behind the handlebars of his motorcycle. Instead, he pulled his orange and black cruiser into the parking lot at Park Ridge City Hall to have his blood drawn and his rectum examined as part of a free prostate cancer screening sponsored by the Chicago Sun-Times.

“I’m at the age where I know I need to take steps to [look] for things that regular doctors won’t catch,” said Stewart, 54, of Morton Grove. “The exam was messy, but it was worth it.”

Stewart was one of 3,775 Chicago area men who dropped trou last week for free prostate screenings from mobile clinics parked around the region.

The turnout was the largest in the four-year history of the Drive Against Prostate Cancer, according to officials at the National Prostate Cancer Coalition, a co-sponsor of the initiative.

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April 29, 2007 BY BEN GOLDBERGER Staff Reporter