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Bloomingdale Bridge Arch Installation to Close Milwaukee Avenue Saturday

By Alisa Hauser | December 4, 2014 6:22pm | Updated on December 6, 2014 12:33am
 Bloomingdale Bridge over Milwaukee Avenue and Leavitt Street.
Bloomingdale Bridge Over Milwaukee Avenue and Leavitt
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WICKER PARK —   Weather permitting, Saturday will be a big day for the much-anticipated Bloomingdale Trail, with the planned installation of arches over a bridge that crosses Milwaukee Avenue.

Beginning 5 a.m. Saturday, a small stretch of Leavitt Street, just east of Milwaukee Avenue, is scheduled to close. Around 10 a.m. Saturday, Milwaukee Avenue will be closed to traffic just north and south of the bridge.

View suggested detour routes here.

The arches are expected to be lifted between 1 and 4 p.m. Saturday, according to a 606 Facebook update, which is encouraging folks to stop by to see the arches be lifted and positioned into place.

Scheduled to open next summer, the Bloomingdale Trail is a 2.7-mile elevated walking, jogging and cycling path that was formerly a railroad line. The trail will serve as the centerpiece of a larger system with six ground-level parks also known as "The 606."

The trail is named for Bloomingdale Avenue, the street the path runs along between Ashland Avenue to the east in Bucktown and Ridgeway Avenue to the west in Logan Square.

Representatives from The Trust for Public Land, the city's leading private partner spearheading the estimated $91 million project, which kicked off last summer, will be onsite to provide information on the trail and give away swag.

Work on the bridge at Milwaukee Avenue and Bloomingdale Street, one of three overpass bridges that crosses the trail, began in March.

At the project's groundbreaking last summer, Mayor Rahm Emanuel predicted The 606 "will do for neighborhoods what Millennium Park has done for downtown" and said the project is part of a strategy to put every child in the city of Chicago within a seven-minute walk from a park within the next five years.

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