CHICAGO (WLS) -- The new 606 bike trail is going high-tech, as Wi-Fi will soon be available along the path. Comcast announced Monday that they are installing 50 Wi-Fi hot spots along the popular trail ...

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The people traversed the elevated trail on foot and by bicycle, on skateboards and scooters, and some even on giant tricycles with hand-rigged sails. Once an overgrown railroad track littered with ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --A much-anticipated new park and bike trail from Humboldt Park to Wicker Park won't be completed until next year, after the bitter winter weather hampered construction efforts. WBBM ...

The Bloomingdale Trail, a 2.7-mile trail that runs along Bloomingdale Avenue from Ridgeway Avenue to Ashland Avenue, won't open for another year. The trail was scheduled to open this fall, but the ...

The 606, which transformed a derelict elevated railroad line into a vibrant park and trail system, will receive the American Planning Association’s 2016 National Planning Excellence Award for Urban ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Some residents living along Chicago's popular 606 Trail are concerned they will be displaced by surging home prices. Mayor Lori Lightfoot stopped a proposed ordinance to halt ...

In the Sunday Life+Travel section, there was a nice article on former railroad corridors converted into trails in the Chicago area (“Rails to trails”). Sadly, while Chicago’s 606 trail is mentioned, ...

Lower-cost housing was bound to be pushed out of neighborhoods along the 606 trail by more expensive replacements because of the way the rails-to-trails project was planned, a pair of academics claim ...