N. Clark Street
Elevation drawing of the Bridge Tender Houses (1931)
(Courtesy of the Chicago Department of Transportation - Division of Engineering)
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- Dedicated: 7/10/1929
- Designers: Thomas G. Pihlfeldt, Donald Becker, Hugh Young
- Classification:Single Deck; Pony Trusses
- Clear Span: 215 feet
- Trunnion-to-Trunnion Span: 245 feet
- Width: 72 feet
- Leaf Weight: 1,400 tons
- Height above the Water: 20 feet
- Construction Cost in 1929: $1.4 million
- Average Daily Foot Traffic (1999): 8,625
- Average Daily Vehicular Traffic (2006): 14,800
- Annual Lifts (2006): 41
- Last Rehabilitated:1985
- Cultural: Poetry - Clark Street Bridge by Carl Sandburg;
- Music – Used as the percussion instrument for the Clark Street Bridge Percussion Orchestra, 2007
- Movies - The Negotiator (1998), Save the Last Dance (2001).
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