Chicago Set to Break Ground on 13-Acre Elevated Sky Park This Year!

Chicago is set to break ground on a 13 acre elevated park later this year, but city officials insist that it won't be anything like <a href="http://inhabitat.com/nyc/exclusive-photos-of-new-york-citys-high-line-park-section-2/">New York's famous High Line</a>. Slated for a 2.7 mile stretch of an abandoned railway trestle that hasn't be used since the 1900s, the Bloomingdale Trail and Park will be a green transport artery that will link several neighborhoods in the city as well as certain sections of the city's metro line. Entirely funded by the public, unlike the <a href="http://inhabitat.com/new-yorks-high-line-park-in-the-sky-opens-today/">privately-funded High Line</a>, this great new green lung is expected to be completed towards the end of 2014.

Chicago is set to break ground on the construction of a new urban park in the city

Slated for a 2.7 mile stretch of disused railway, the park will be elevated like NYC's High Line

City officials insist that the Bloomingdale Park and Trail is more like a transport corridor than an art walk

Cyclists will be able to use the trails, whereas cycling is prohibited along the High Line

This is what the railway trestle currently looks like

By the end of 2014, this whole area should be bright green and filled with nature-loving urban dwellers!