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<p><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/wicker-park" >Wicker Park</a> and <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/bucktown" >Bucktown</a> — and the Bloomingdale Trail that runs through the two bustling neighborhoods — are ready to welcome summer with four new murals that celebrate warmer weather.</p><p>A new mural at the Milwaukee Avenue entrance to the trail was inspired by artist Ramiro Huizar's 5- and 6-year-old daughters and their shared love for riding bicycles and scooters together.</p><p>“They love being on their scooters,” says Huizar, who noted his 6-year-old has now graduated to her bicycle. He has ridden the Bloomingdale Trail, also known as "the 606," for years, since before the girls were born.</p><p>“When I was younger I would bike it downtown in the middle of the night,” says Huizar, who goes by the artist name "Ramiro." He tried to evoke that sensation with the mural, stars winking in the sky and orange lights shining up and down from buildings and streetlights guiding the path’s direction.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center> <div class="Enhancement-item" data-crop=""> <figure class="Figure"><a class="AnchorLink" id="image-f90000" name="image-f90000"></a> <picture data-crop="medium"> <source type="image/webp" width="490" height="275" data-srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/19f9fde/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5240x2941+0+276/resize/490x275!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fd1%2F52%2F29bcb9bc4ebf805bfa4c11064ddd%2Fmurals-bucktown-260517-03.jpeg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/50ba14a/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5240x2941+0+276/resize/980x550!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fd1%2F52%2F29bcb9bc4ebf805bfa4c11064ddd%2Fmurals-bucktown-260517-03.jpeg 2x" data-lazy-load="true" srcset="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" /> <source width="490" height="275" data-srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/e50bad3/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5240x2941+0+276/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fd1%2F52%2F29bcb9bc4ebf805bfa4c11064ddd%2Fmurals-bucktown-260517-03.jpeg" data-lazy-load="true" srcset="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" /> <img class="Image" alt="Sentrock&#x27;s &quot;Bloom&quot; mural is across the street on North Milwaukee Avenue." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/e50bad3/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5240x2941+0+276/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fd1%2F52%2F29bcb9bc4ebf805bfa4c11064ddd%2Fmurals-bucktown-260517-03.jpeg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/2eebe69/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5240x2941+0+276/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fd1%2F52%2F29bcb9bc4ebf805bfa4c11064ddd%2Fmurals-bucktown-260517-03.jpeg 2x" width="490" height="275" data-src="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/e50bad3/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5240x2941+0+276/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fd1%2F52%2F29bcb9bc4ebf805bfa4c11064ddd%2Fmurals-bucktown-260517-03.jpeg" data-lazy-load="true" src="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" > </picture> <div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Sentrock’s “BLOOM — A Chicago Story” is across the street on North Milwaukee Avenue.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times</p></div></div> </figure> </div> </div><p>Across Milwaukee Avenue is a new mural from the Chicago artist known as Sentrock, whose “Bloom” mural uses shades of the Chicago flag's red, white and blue, along with peach, to evoke Lake Michigan, flowers springing up, birds soaring, bricks, cardinals and the train that once ran on tracks that traveled the Bloomingdale Trail.</p><p>These are the first two of 12 murals that will eventually stretch along the embankments of the trail, which opened in 2015.</p><p>“We’re trying to fill that space in as much as we can, from now to as far as we can go,” says Zissou Tasseff-Elenkoff, owner and curator at All Star Press, which is coordinating the murals. He hopes to turn the embankment into its own destination for mural lovers.

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