Bike Path Will Link Edgewater to Joliet, and Nearly All of It Is Off-Road

CHICAGO — By next year, you'll be able to bike from Edgewater to Joliet — and nearly all of it off-road.

The Lakefront Trail now stretches about 18 miles from Hollywood Avenue and Lake Shore Drive on the north lakefront through Downtown and down to the South Shore Cultural Center. An approximately 6-mile trail of on-street bike lanes along U.S. 41 ends at the Burnham Greenway Trail at Wolf Lake in Hegewisch on the Southeast Side.

But plans next year call for the Burnham Greenway Trail to be extended into south suburban Burnham. There, the paved, off-road trail will link into a 74-mile path through the south and southwest suburbs that now runs approximately from Calumet City to the Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve in Darien.

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Permalink Reply by Tooscrapps on June 17, 2019 at 9:55am

It's essentially the route from Ave O/126th Street in Chicago to State St in Calumet City. The railroad was holding it up because they wanted a bridge, but it sounds like it's moving forward:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-southeast-side-tough...

Background:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-burnham-greenway-trouble...