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Kinzie Street Bridge

Cook County, Illinois
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General View Of Bridge, Looking South

Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record

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Map 

Street Views 

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Facts 

Overview
Bascule bridge over North Branch Chicago River on Kinzie Street in Chicago
Location
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1909; rehabilitated 1999
Builder
- Alexander von Babo
Design
Bascule Pratt through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 136.1 ft.
Total length: 194.8 ft.
Deck width: 36.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 11.5 ft.
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.88917, -87.63944   (decimal degrees)
41°53'21" N, 87°38'22" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/446950/4637668 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Chicago Loop
Inventory numbers
IL 016-6028 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 15141 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 09/2011)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 42.0 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2010)
5,900

Categories 

Alexander von Babo (4)
Bascule (1,020)
Built 1909 (640)
Built during 1900s (6,234)
Chicago Landmark (14)
Chicago River (40)
Chicago River Movable Bridges (47)
Chicago, Illinois (256)
Cook County, Illinois (368)
HAER documented (1,096)
Have street view (21,750)
Illinois (3,830)
Laced endposts (140)
 Movable (2,692)
NR-eligible (3,963)
Navigable waterway (1,997)
Open (36,265)
Owned by city (4,454)
Pratt through truss (4,558)
Pratt truss (7,948)
Skewed (4,663)
Span length 125-175 feet (3,745)
Through truss (12,831)
Total length 175-250 feet (3,723)
Truss (29,328)

Update Log 

  • January 21, 2016: New photos from Royce and Bobette Haley
  • February 18, 2015: New Street View added by Luke
  • October 30, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
  • May 17, 2010: New photos from J.R. Manning
  • April 17, 2010: New Street View added by James Baughn

Sources 

  • HAER IL-134 - Chicago River Bascule Bridge, Kinzie Street, Spanning North Branch Chicago River at Kinzie Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL
  • J.R. Manning - thekitchenguy [at] sbcglobal [dot] net
  • Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
  • Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
  • Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
  • Douglas Butler
  • Royce and Bobette Haley - roycehaley111 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Luke
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Kinzie Street Bridge
Posted April 13, 2017, by george oakley (georgeoakley49 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

Hats off to google maps for putting street view on the river!Should do it everywhere!

Kinzie Street Bridge
Posted April 13, 2017, by Roger Deschner (rogerdeschner [at] gmail [dot] com)

Nice piece about this bridge this morning on WBEZ (NPR Chicago), focusing on the bridgetender's house, and its role in the Great Chicago Flood of 1992, which happened 25 years ago today. Audio story includes interesting history of the bridge, including its origin as a pathway between two taverns, the time a taxicab flew off it into the river while it was being lifted, and of course the Great Chicago Flood in 1992 which was caused by pilings driven to protect the bridge from errant barges. Some nice photos.

https://www.wbez.org/shows/morning-shift/whats-that-building...