W. Monroe Street
General Plan and Elevation drawing (1915)
(Courtesy of the Chicago Department of Transportation - Division of Engineering)
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- Dedicated: 2/22/1919
- Designers: Thomas G. Pihlfeldt, Alexander von Babo, Hugh E. Young, Edward Bennett
- Classification:Single Deck; Pony Trusses
- Clear Span: 166 feet
- Trunnion-to-Trunnion Span: 193 feet
- Width: 60 feet
- Leaf Weight: 1,000 - 2,100 tons (est)
- Height above the Water: 19 feet
- Construction Cost in 1919: $525,488
- Average Daily Foot Traffic (1999): 10,279
- Average Daily Vehicular Traffic (2006): 15,900
- Annual Lifts (2006): 48
- Last Rehabilitated: 2001
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