Fate of cycling track on US Steel land is unclear

Will it find a loving partner and a new home - or face eviction? These are the questions that swirl around the decaying and abandoned velodrome that sits, surrounded by a chainlink fence, at 87th and Burley in the South Chicago neighborhood.

The banked cycling track sits on land owned by U.S. Steel, part of a 400-plus acre lakefront parcel that the Pittsburgh-based metals giant, it was announced last week, is selling to developers who want to erect 20,000 homes.

Final details are being sorted out, but the deal could close as early as November.

The track was to be be the first step of an ambitious plan to build a world-class racing and training facility along the lakefront - the dream of Emanuele Bianchi, an Italian who lives in Chicago and owns a pet accessory company.

Bianchi gave it his all for three years, but when his outsized dream did not become reality, he stepped away.

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