Bronzeville Trail Task Force, Inc.

A group of community-based stakeholders came together as a volunteer group and incorporated the Bronzeville Trail Task Force, Inc. (BTTF) on September 8, 2020. The mission was simple. The Kenwood ‘L’ Embankment that runs East-West through Bronzeville along 40th/41st street, had been abandoned for nearly 70 years. BTTF had one singular objective and that was to persuade the City of Chicago and Cook County to develop the embankment into a 2-mile walking, jogging, and biking trail. We are the developers of this rails-to-trails project in the historic Bronzeville community on the South Side of Chicago.

The Bronzeville Trail Task Force, Inc. is an Illinois not-for-profit recognized under the Internal Revenue Service Code (IRC) Section 501(c)3 as a public charity. Our mission is to develop the abandoned Kenwood “L” Line embankment (originally named the Stock Yards Line), located in the Bronzeville community, to a walking, running, and biking trail linear park(“the Trail”) .