A key entry point to the planned Bloomingdale Park & Trail in Logan Square was secured through a City-owned land sale approved today by City Council.

The .30 acres of land, located at 1799-1805 N. Milwaukee Ave., will be sold to the Chicago Park District for $1. The Park District will then develop the site with open space amenities and use it to provide public access to the Bloomingdale Trail, currently being planned as a three-mile-long linear park on a former elevated rail line.

“As an open space asset and as a future entry point to the trail, this site has a very unique role in helping to meet the community's open space needs," Mayor Rahm Emanuel said.

The two-parcel property, currently vacant, was acquired by the City in 2007 in anticipation of the trail's eventual creation.

Additional entry points along the length of the trail are being planned to provide access from grade level to the top of the elevated structure.

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