Editors note: Organizers of The 606's Walk with Light announced Friday that Sunday's event will be postponed due to a winter storm watch. The 606 said it is working to schedule an alternate date.
Walking is a necessity in Chicago. You walk to work, you walk to the store and inevitably you walk back to your home. And now with our old friend “arctic blast” back in town and the city bracing for its coldest temperatures in 10 months, a walk anywhere is slowly but surely becoming a walk to forget.
Still there is one walk looking to shine some light on the much-maligned winter trek. On Sunday, December 11, The 606 will bring its popular Walk with Light event back for a second year, inviting Chicagoans to shine for a few hours and illuminate the city trail together.
From 4-5:30pm, visitors can join a procession along the Bloomingdale Trail from Milwaukee/Leavitt Park to Ridgeway Avenue bedecked in their favorite luminescent accessories. “To make it special, we challenge you to find a way to bring light with you,” organizers state on The 606 website. So, get creative and put those extra holiday lights to good use. The only rule (and this should go without saying): no fire!
Afterward, visitors can head to Ridgeway Park (anytime between 5 and 6:30pm) for a post-walk celebration, complete with fire pits, music, warm refreshments, s’mores and light spectacles. Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail will also be holding a winter clothing drive at the Milwaukee/Leavitt, Humboldt Boulevard and Ridgeway Avenue access points. So get rid of some of your unused gear and celebrate the winter walking season with what might be your final trek on the 606 until the weather back up.
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