W. Madison Street
Lyric Opera Bridge
Elevation drawing of the Bridge Tender House (1920)
(Courtesy of the Chicago Department of Transportation - Division of Engineering)
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- Dedicated: 11/29/1922
- Designers: Thomas G. Pihlfeldt, Hugh E. Young, John Ericson, Edward Bennett
- Classification: Single Deck; Rail Height Trusses
- Clear Span: 189 feet
- Trunnion-to-Trunnion Span: 221 feet
- Width: 72 feet
- Leaf Weight: 1,800 tons
- Height above the Water: 16 feet
- Construction Cost in 1922: $1.5 million
- Average Daily Foot Traffic (1999): 41,586
- Average Daily Vehicular Traffic (2006): 9,900
- Annual Lifts (2006): 68
- Last Rehabilitated: 1994
- Cultural: Featured in two photographs in the book “The Chicago Exhibition” by Michele Fitzsimmons and Diane Schmidt.
- Named the Lyric Opera Bridge in 1989. Movie: Just Visiting (2001).
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