Grace Area

The West Ravenswood Corridor Greenway Metra North Line Improvements

View North
Between Berteau Avenue and Grace Street, Ravenswood Avenue is directly next to the railroad property line.
North of Irving Park Road the railroad embankment is supported by an older sectional concrete wall. From
Irving Park Road to Grace Street the embankment is supported by a variety of wall types in some areas, or by Retaining Wall
(on RR property line)

no walls at all. This area is also largely residential and in places some landscaping has been done by local efforts.
All existing walls and landscaping will be removed and the entire distance improved with a continuous new
retaining wall.
Ravenswood is one-way between Irving Park Road and Grace Street. Several feet of land will be freed up for
green space in front of the new wall. To mitigate for the loss of existing greenery a continuous trellis-like “green Landscape Edge
With Trellis, Vines and Ground-cover
wall” is proposed between Berteau and Grace. This will be covered in vines and additional plantings made in
the narrow parkway at the base of the wall.

Existing Proposed

Bridge

west Ravenswood Avenue

west Ravenswood Avenue
Berniece Avenue

New continuous

grace Avenue
retaining wall
3' continuous 3' continuous
planting area with planting area with
north trellis/vines at base trellis and vines
of retaining wall at base of
retaining wall

Area Facts Cross Section

Irving Park to Grace Existing Anticipated Safety Fence Safety Fence
Existing Landscape Trellis w/ Vines
Parking on west side of street 46 spaces 46 spaces (approximately) Plantings (on RR property)

Community Green Space none 3,745 square feet Green Space Green Space New Train Track

Existing Train Track

Natural Drainage Area none none Traffic Flow Traffic Flow

Parallel Parking Parallel Parking

RR Property Line RR Property Line

Existing Proposed