Damen Avenue Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Steel through arch bridge over N Branch Chicago River on North Damen Avenue
- Location
- Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1999
- Design
- Steel through arch
- Dimensions
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Span length: 313.0 ft.
Total length: 313.0 ft.
Deck width: 47.2 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.92806, -87.67806 (decimal degrees)
41°55'41" N, 87°40'41" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/443781/4642010 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Chicago Loop
- Inventory numbers
- IL 016-6527 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 58413 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Related Bridges
- Damen Avenue Bridge (Old) (Successor)
Sources
- Steve Conro - sconro [at] yahoo [dot] com
Comments
Off topic (Not this specific bridge):
There used to be a rather long bridge on Damen Avenue, between Pershing Road and 47th Street (39 to 47 south), a sort of freeway connecting those two points. A rather large railroad yard lies between Pershing and 47th street, and the Damen Avenue Skyway, as I believe it was called, was the only way across the yard.
This bridge was built in the late 1960s, if I recall, and was demolished, never replaced, in the late 1990s. I do not have exact dates on either construction or demolition.
Somewhere in my archives are a handful of aerial photos of this bridge in process of demolition. If I can find them, I will forward them.
While this bridge was a typical "UCEB," it was still unusual in that Chicago had tried to connecting some neighborhoods, and it is a mystery to me why this project and bridge were abandoned.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/il/cook/damon-ave/
Evidently the bridge over the rail yard was called the South Damen Viaduct: http://chicagohistorytoday.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/south-da...
I've added a page for it: http://bridgehunter.com/il/cook/bh60352/