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Illinois River I-39 Bridge

La Salle County, Illinois
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Photo taken by Bill Burmaster

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Overview
Steel through arch bridge over the Illinois River on I-39/US 51 near La Salle in Oglesby
Location
La Salle County, Illinois
Status
Open to four lanes of traffic
History
Built 1987
Design
Steel through arch
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 619.9 ft.
Total length: 7,120.2 ft. (1.3 mi.)
Deck width: 82.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 19.3 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.31083, -89.08278   (decimal degrees)
41°18'39" N, 89°04'58" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/325655/4575355 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
La Salle
Inventory numbers
IL 050-0191 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 15416 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 07/2010)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 81.1 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2011)
17,400

Categories 

Arch (9,420)
Built 1987 (31)
Built during 1980s (311)
Flared (407)
Illinois (2,500)
Illinois River (46)
La Salle County, Illinois (50)
Navigable waterway (1,448)
 Open (28,315)
Over a mile long (192)
Owned by state (9,809)
Span length 500-1000 feet (313)
Steel through arch (175)
Total length over 2500 feet (587)
US 51 (29)

Update Log 

  • February 1, 2012: New photo from Gene Smania
  • January 9, 2006: Posted photos from Bill Burmaster

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Illinois River I-39 Bridge
Posted June 2, 2012, by Craig Wiesenfarth (craig [dot] wiesenfarth [at] gmail [dot] com)

Here are a few more pictures taken by my passenger in May 2012

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Illinois River I-39 Bridge
Posted March 10, 2011, by Gene Smania

Photos taken March 2004.

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Illinois River I-39 Bridge
Posted May 3, 2009, by Dustin Adams (weetbixkid [at] coolkiwi [dot] co [dot] nz)

I just crossed this bridge Saturday, and it's beautiful. I'm so glad the work is done. Now, if they can just get around to ripping the shoulders off the rest of I-39 and redoing those, I-39 would be, perhaps, the best highway in the whole state.

Illinois River I-39 Bridge
Posted March 25, 2008, by Tim Braun (musicman126 [at] msn [dot] com)

They've been working on this thing forever. When you're southbound, they have you crammed ALL the way up to the guard rail with a width restriction of 12'6" and if you're a bridge-phobe, it's scary. Northbound you "cross over" into the southbound lane, the lane is much wider, and it's a "center" lane so it's not as scary. I cross it every few weeks and I wish they would just FINISH the work already!

Illinois River I-39 Bridge
Posted October 4, 2006, by Anthony Scriven (ascriven1 [at] juno [dot] com)

The name of this bridge is the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Bridge. I cross it when I travel to Wisconsin to visit family.