Science & Nature

Bloomingdale Trail

WTTW News | June 14, 2011, 7:00 pm

It's not much now, but find out how the city plans to transform a three-mile long abandoned railway. Paris Schutz takes us for a journey down the Bloomingdale Trail.

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