Wednesday, August 17, 2011
You Are Here Zoom in: Bucktown
Posted by Kevin Warwick on 08.17.11 at 01:15 PM
Each week, the Reader takes a closer look at a place worth knowing about
As it awaits its conversion by the City of Chicago into a multiuse trail and linear park, a plan that's been in the works since 2004, the city and some of its residents have tried to lock down the future Bloomingdale Trail, deterring trespassers by barricading entrances with chain-link and iron fencing. But if you're resourceful enough, there are ways around that. The Bucktown entrance on the west side of Leavitt, just north of Milwaukee, has a hole cut in a section of chain-link and an embankment that allows you to scale up to the Bloomingdale overpass of Milwaukee.
For more on the Bloomingdale Trail, check out John Greenfield's 2009 cover story as well as his 2010 follow-up.
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