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View from Segar Park

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Overview: Through and deck truss bridge over the Mississippi River on MO 51/IL 150 at Chester
Status: Open to two-lane traffic
Future prospects: Does not need to be replaced
History: Opened Aug. 23, 1942 as a toll bridge. Main span destroyed by severe thunderstorm July 29, 1944; reopened Aug. 24, 1946. Tolls removed Jan. 1, 1989.
Design: Cantilevered through truss
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 669.8 ft.
Total length: 2,826.4 ft.
Deck width: 22.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 19.9 ft.
Recognition: Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude: +37.90246, -89.83698 (decimal degrees)
37°54'09" N, 89°50'13" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Inventory number: BH 15626 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

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October 17, 2005: Posted additional photos

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Chester Bridge

Posted November 25, 2007, by Andy (jandyb1971 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

If I am correct this bridge was used in a scene of the movie "In the Heat of the Night," during which a prisoner is seen being being chased from "Mississippi" into "Arkansas".

The movie is set in the town of Sparta, Ms., which in the movie the town of Sparta, Il. was where the filming took place.