N. La Salle Street
Marshall Suloway Bridge
Elevation drawing of the Bridge Tender Houses (1927)
(Courtesy of the Chicago Department of Transportation - Division of Engineering)
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- Dedicated: 12/20/1928
- Designers: Thomas G. Pihlfeldt, Donald Becker, Edward Bennett
- Classification:Single Deck; Pony Trusses
- Clear Span: 220 feet
- Trunnion-to-Trunnion Span: 242 feet
- Width: 86 feet
- Leaf Weight: 2,100 tons
- Height above the Water: 19 feet
- Construction Cost in 1928: $1.4 million
- Average Daily Foot Traffic (1999): 5,311
- Average Daily Vehicular Traffic (2006): 12,050
- Annual Lifts (2006): 39
- Last Rehabilitated: 1971
- Cultural: Movies –Road to Perdition (2001), Batman Begins (2005), The Weatherman (2005), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
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