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Pages in category "Rail trails in Illinois" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. ... Great Western Trail (Illinois) Green Bay Trail; I.
May Theilgaard Watts is credited for a letter written in 1963 that initiated the first project in what became a widespread rail-to-trails program of land use across the United States. [1] In August 2008, the Illinois Prairie Path was inducted into the Rails-to-Trails hall of fame. [2]
The trail derives its name from the former Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, commonly known as the Rock Island.The current Rock Island Trail is a fragment of what was once a predecessor railroad, the Peoria and Rock Island Railroad built in 1869-1871, stretching southeastward from the Quad Cities of Illinois and Iowa to Peoria.
As the railway was abandoned, the government of DuPage County made upgrades to the path, and between 1990 through 1992, the trail was converted from a rail grade to a bicycle trail. The 12.7-mile (20.4 km) crushed stone path crosses some farmland and suburban areas. At the east end of the trail is a restored former CGW depot building.
East Central Illinois has been woefully devoid of long-distance recreational rail trails, but that situation may be slowly changing. ... Not only is an announcement about a schedule for completion ...
The Arches Rail Trail is a 3.0-mile (4.8 km) rail trail from Hillsboro, Illinois to Butler, Illinois in Butler Grove Township in central Montgomery County. [1]The trail occupies part of what was the Terre Haute & Alton, an 1850s railroad built to connect the state of Indiana with the Mississippi River port of Alton.
The Bloomingdale Trail is a 2.7-mile (4.3 km) elevated rail trail linear park running east–west on the northwest side of Chicago. It is the longest greenway project of a former elevated rail line in the Western Hemisphere, and the second longest in the world, after the Promenade plantee linear park in Paris. In 2015, the City of Chicago ...
The Sangamon Valley Trail is an 11.5-mile (18.5 km) rail trail on the west side of Sangamon County in the U.S. state of Illinois.Skirting Springfield, Illinois, it extends from Centennial Park, on Springfield's southwest side (), to Irwin Bridge Road near Sangamon County's northern border