La Salle Street Bridge | |
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 View of the bridge from the Wells Street Bridge | |
| Coordinates | 41°53′15″N87°37′57″W / 41.887484°N 87.632474°W |
| Carries | Automobiles Pedestrians |
| Crosses | Chicago River |
| Locale | Chicago, Cook County, Illinois |
| Official name | Marshall Suloway Bridge |
| Maintained by | Chicago Department of Transportation |
| ID number | 000016603226800 |
| Characteristics | |
| Total length | 242 feet (74 m) |
| Width | 86 feet (26 m) |
| Longest span | 220 feet (67 m) |
| Clearance above | 18.7 feet (5.7 m) |
| History | |
| Designer | Donald Becker |
| Opened | 1928 |
| Statistics | |
| Daily traffic | 12050 [1] |
| Location | |
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The La Salle Street Bridge (officially the Marshall Suloway Bridge) is a single-deck double-leaf trunnion bascule bridge spanning the main stem of the Chicago River in Chicago, Illinois, [2] that connects the Near North Side with the Loop area. It was constructed in 1928 at a cost of $2,500,000 [3] by the Strobel Steel Constructing Company.
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The bridge was part of a scheme to widen LaSalle Street and improve access from the Loop to the north side of the river that had been proposed as early as 1902. [4] The design of the bridge, along with those for new bridges at Madison Street, Franklin Street, and Clark Street, was approved in 1916. [5]
The Chicago City Council renamed the bridge in 1999 to honor former Chicago Department of Public Works Commissioner Marshall Suloway. [6]
