La Salle Street Bridge | |
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![]() View of the bridge from the
Wells Street Bridge | |
Coordinates | 41°53′15″N 87°37′57″W / 41.887484°N 87.632474°W |
Carries | Automobiles Pedestrians |
Crosses | Chicago River |
Locale | Chicago, Cook County, Illinois |
Official name | La Salle Street Bridge |
Other name(s) | 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.
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]