N. Wabash Avenue
Irv Kupcinet Bridge
Elevation drawing of the Bridge Tender Houses (1930)
(Courtesy of the Chicago Department of Transportation - Division of Engineering)
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- Dedicated 12/20/1930
- Designers: Thomas G. Pihlfeldt, Donald Becker, Edward H. Bennet, Hugh Young
- Classification:Single Deck; Rail Height Trusses
- Clear Span: 232 feet
- Trunnion-to-Trunnion Span: 269 feet
- Width: 90 feet
- Leaf Weight: 2,600 tons
- Height above the Water: 22 feet
- Construction Cost in 1930: $2.7 million
- Average Daily Foot Traffic (1999): 7,047
- Average Daily Vehicular Traffic (2006): 5,800
- Annual Lifts (2006): 41
- Last Rehabilitated: 2003
- Cultural: Movies – About Last Night (1986), Straight Talk (1991), Wanted (2008), The Dark Knight, Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) (2008)
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