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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Phyllis Cha

Bronzeville Trail to receive $5 million in funding in 2024

John Adams, founder of the Bronzeville Trail Task Force, is shown near the embankment of the abandoned Kenwood L line. The task force wants to create a two-mile biking, running and walking trail on the South Side, with a monument that pays tribute to Major Taylor, a Black cycling champion. Their effort will receive a $5 million funding boost next year from local and federal governments. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

A planned two-mile-long biking, running and walking trail on the South Side, with a monument that pays tribute to a cycling champion who blazed a trail in sports for other Black athletes, will receive a boost of funding next year, including more than $5 million from local and federal governments.

How exactly that money will be used has yet to be determined, John Adams, founder of the Bronzeville Trail Task Force, said Friday.

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