Bloomingdale Trail Construction to Begin Next Week

Download the press release. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 26, 2013 Contact: Pete Scales, CDOT 312-744-0707 No Parking on Bloomingdale Avenue as Workers Remove Paint from Viaducts and Retaining Walls Neighbors near the Bloomingdale Trail,…

Sep 26, 2013   ·   News Releases

Mayor Emanuel Leads Groundbreaking on Bloomingdale Trail

Download the press release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 27, 2013 CONTACT: Mayor’s Press Office 312.744.3334 press@cityofchicago.org MAYOR EMANUEL LEADS GROUNDBREAKING ON BLOOMINGDALE TRAIL 2.7-Mile Multipurpose Elevated Trail to Open Fall 2014 as Centerpiece of…

Aug 27, 2013   ·   News Releases

City Awards Bloomingdale Trail Construction Contract

From: Chicago Department of Transportation Walsh Construction Submits Lowest Bid of $53.7 Million to Build the 2.7-Mile Trail and Repair and Improve 40 Railway Viaducts Railway and Retaining Walls The Chicago Department of Procurement…

Aug 20, 2013   ·   News Releases

Bloomingdale Trail will feature public art in new construction

WBEZ | The Morning Shift By: Tony Sarabia Plans for the Bloomingdale Trail, also known as The 606, are ambitious, and construction is set to get underway this summer. In addition to a running…

Aug 19, 2013   ·   Archives

Taming the Bloomingdale Trail

Red Eye By Tracy Swartz Call it the 606. Call it the Bloomingdale Trail. Just call it ready for construction. The 606 is the name recently bestowed to a project to convert an abandoned…

Aug 11, 2013   ·   Archives

On the trail of art

Chicago Tribune Christopher Borrelli The Bloomingdale Trail runs for 2.7 miles along mostly unused elevated freight line. It cuts a path through Wicker Park, Bucktown, Humboldt Park and Logan Square. It begins on the…

Aug 09, 2013   ·   Archives

The 606 is Chicago’s Next Great Park

New branding connects neighborhood parks to the Bloomingdale Trail CHICAGO – June 18, 2013. Chicago’s next great park is The 606. The Trust for Public Land today announced The 606 as the umbrella name…

Jun 18, 2013   ·   News Releases

Next Step for The Bloomingdale Trail – Creating an identity

Chicago Tribune By Kathy Bergen, Tribune reporter The planned 2.7-mile Bloomingdale Trail and five linked parks — envisioned as an elevated pedestrian and bicycling corridor splashed with artwork and landscaping — will assume a…

Jun 17, 2013   ·   Archives

Bloomingdale Trail to be Chicago gem

Chicago Sun-Times By: Neil Steinberg The good news is that the City of Chicago has not only discovered 13 acres of new park, but found it in the green-space deprived near northwest side of…

Apr 12, 2013   ·   Archives