CHICAGO (CBS) --A 28-year-old man was arrested Thursday morning after police fired shots at him on the Bloomingdale Trail while responding to "several crimes involving a weapon." Police said the man ...

A decade ago, when landscape design firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates was tasked with envisioning plant life on the 606 (known to its founders and neighborhood organizers as the Bloomingdale ...

A 17-year-old boy was shot in his face Monday afternoon near the Bloomingdale Trail between the Logan Square and Humboldt Park neighborhoods on the Northwest Side. The teen was standing on the front ...

You can get a glimpse of the Bloomingdale Trail, an abandoned railroad line in Chicago, on a Blue Line Train from O’Hare to the Loop. The Blue Line comes in to the city at an angle, and so you’ll only ...

The serviceberry resembles a blueberry and is only available for a short period in June. “You have to pay attention,” says Bonnie Tawes, writer and recipe wrangler for a new cookbook that honors the ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Aldermen on Monday advanced a plan to impose thousands of dollars of additional fees charged to anyone seeking to demolish single-family homes and apartment buildings in Pilsen and ...

The Bloomingdale Trail, a 2.7-mile trail that runs along Bloomingdale Avenue from Ridgeway Avenue to Ashland Avenue, will open on June 6 after nearly two years of construction, a city spokesperson ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Completion of an innovative new park and trail in Chicago's Bucktown neighborhood is being pushed back until June 2015. City officials are blaming last winter's harsh conditions for ...

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If one adds up the footprints in Chicago’s buildings throughout the city’s history — the construction and destruction of structures — one can’t help but reveal ghosts, ghosts that haunt spaces. And ...