From the May 5th Chicago Tribune CityScapes blog by Blair Kamin and Wikipedia.
San Francisco has its Golden Gate, New York City its Brooklyn Bridge and Cincinnati it Roebling Bridge (a practice run for the Brooklyn). Chicago has its famous Michigan Avenue Bridge.
May 14th, the Friends of the Chicago River will hold a 90th birthday party for it which is a great double-leaf, double-deck, trunnion bascule Beaux Arts bridge linking the Loop with the Magnificent Mile to the north.
It is considered an engineering miracle built between 1917 and 1920 designed by architect Edward H. Bennett. Later, this type of bridge became known as Chicago-style bascule. It is 220 feet long and a pair of 108 horsepower motors operate it. In 2006, the McCormick Tribune Bridgehouse and Chicago River Museum opened in the southwest corner of the bridge.
it was built as part of Daniel Burnhams's 1909 Plan of Chicago.
That Is One Impressive Bridge Even If Not as Long as Some. --RoadDog
RoadDog's RoadLog Blog: Being my travels down those great two lane highways of this nation as well as news I learn about them from media sources. Since I'm also very interested in historic preservation, there will be a lot of that as well.
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