N. Dearborn Street
Elevation drawing of the Bridge Tender House (1958)
(Courtesy of the Chicago Department of Transportation - Division of Engineering)
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- Dedicated 10/23/1963
- Designers: Division of Bridges and Viaducts
- Classification:Single Deck; Rail Height Trusses
- Clear Span: 200 feet
- Trunnion-to-Trunnion Span: 235 feet
- Width: 86 feet
- Leaf Weight: 2,100 tons
- Height above the Water: 21 feet
- Cost of Construction in 1963: $6.3 million
- Average Daily Foot Traffic (1999): 5,205
- Average Daily Vehicular Traffic (2006): 15,205
- Annual Lifts (2006): 43
- Last Rehabilitated: N/A
- Cultural: Movies – Message in a Bottle (1999), The Dark Knight (2008)
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