The 606: Mask Making Workshop at Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center

MAYOR EMANUEL JOINS SENATOR DURBIN, THE CHICAGO PARK DISTRICT, THE CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND TO OPEN THE 606 PARK AND TRAIL SYSTEM

Event Kicks Off Three-Mile Long Weekend Festival Celebrating Chicago’s Next Great Park   Mayor Rahm Emanuel was joined today by Senator Dick Durbin, officials from The Trust for Public Land, the Chicago Park District…

A Preview of the Long Awaited 606 Trail, Opening This Weekend

The Bloomingdale Trail, or 606, has spent over ten years in the making, and the long awaited rails-to-trails project that stretches from Humboldt Park to Bucktown will finally open to the public this weekend….

Bloomingdale Trail unveiled in advance of Saturday opening

Chicago Sun-Times Maudlyne Ihejirika View video on the Sun-Times’ website A 10-foot-wide path flanked by 2-foot-wide running tracks where tracks of the train kind once lay, fledgling trees and scenic landscaping, beckoned the horde…

Atop Bloomingdale Trail, Emanuel Sees ‘The 606’ as Neighborhood Unifier

HUMBOLDT PARK — Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday praised the potential unifying impact of The 606 project and its elevated Bloomingdale Trail, which cuts through four city neighborhoods and is set to open on…

Chicago’s new 606 trail a boon for open space, neighborhoods it links

From the air, it resembles a thin gray ribbon, stretching almost endlessly as it wends its way through a thicket of factory smokestacks and cheek-by-jowl houses. Closer to the ground, it becomes intimate, a…

The 606 Opening Weekend – A Party Ten Years in the Making

Three-mile long festival planned for JUNE 6-7, 2015 The Trust for Public Land (TPL.org) invites you to enjoy music, dancing, processions, and hands-on family activities that celebrate the community spirit that launched this park…

Elementary student bike clubs along Bloomingdale Trail gear up for opening

RedEye Steven Vance   West Town Bikes and students at five Chicago elementary schools are planning a spectacle for The 606’s grand opening on June 6. All the schools are within a couple of blocks…

Drone Flies Over Nearly-Ready Bloomingdale Trail

ABC7 Chicago Paul Meincke Watch the video on ABC7’s website   More than $90 million has been spent to turn part of the old Bloomingdale Rail Line into a park that is more than…

A sneak peek at The 606

RedEye Leonor Vivanco The railroad tracks that once carried freight cars full of Schwinn bicycles and Hammond organs are gone, replaced with a smooth concrete path for cyclists and soft rubber shoulders for runners….