Chicago's Elevated Train System Turning 125. June 6, 2017 / 7:43 AM CDT / CBS Chicago ... new public art, enhanced landscaping, new benches, and an improved pedestrian crossing.

After 10 years in the making, Curbed Chicago reports that the Bloomingdale Trail, also known as the 606, opened to the public last weekend. The 2.7-mile stretch repurposes an abandoned elevated train ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- The ribbon was cut this morning on the nearly three-mile long trail known as the 606, reports WBBM's Mike Krauser. The $95 million 606 is officially open after a decade of planning ...

In 1892, like today, Chicago had a traffic problem. Streets in the booming Midwestern city were so jammed with pedestrians, carts, horses and streetcars that entrepreneurs tried a new way of gettin… ...

A piece of our urban landscape that novelist Nelson Algren called Chicago’s “rusty iron heart” turned 100 this summer. But most people, even daily commuters, didn’t notice the anniversary.

CHICAGO On an abandoned Chicago railway line cutting between the treetops, bike commuters zip by walkers and joggers, all traversing a ribbon of concrete undulating through a lush landscape Chicago ...

The City of Chicago is trying to buy some old elevated railroad tracks and create a multi-use trail similar to the 606. The Weber Spur, which runs through LaBagh Woods, is already used as a nature ...