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Bridge Street Bridge
Photos
postcard, Curt Teich & Co. Chicago, IL ca 1913/Lake County Discovery Museum collection
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
BH Photo #352672
Description
Built as three span steel plate girder--construction started summer 1910; opened to traffic early 1911.Request for bids published in The American Contractor, Volume 31, April 2, 1910. Bids were due on April 4, 1910. Designed by Ralph Modjeski; construction supervised by Modjeski; built by Milwaukee Bridge Company. Superstructure replaced in 1972--Kor 10 steel. Original piers used in reconstruction. New abutments. Carries EB IL Rt 18.Facts
- Overview
- Deck plate girder bridge over Vermilion River on Eastbound IL 18
- Location
- Streator, LaSalle County, Illinois
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- There was a structure here prior to 1913. Superstructure replaced in the late 1960's/early 1970's.
- Builders
- - Milwaukee Bridge Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Ralph Modjeski of Bochnia, Poland
- Design
- Deck plate girder
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.11907, -88.83831 (decimal degrees)
41°07'09" N, 88°50'18" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/345670/4553603 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 72032 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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