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Cicero Avenue Bascule Bridge

 
South Cicero Avenue, Chicago, IL 60804, United States of America (IL 50)
 
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Cicero Avenue Bascule Bridge is a minor waterways place on the Illinois Waterway (Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal) between Ship - Calumet Junction (Junction of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal with the Calumet River) (13.82 miles to the southwest) and Loomis Street Bridge (4.64 miles to the east).
 
 
The nearest place in the direction of Ship - Calumet Junction is South Central Avenue Bridge; 1.08 miles away.
 
The nearest place in the direction of Loomis Street Bridge is Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad Bridge; 0.27 miles away.

Mooring here is unrated.

There is a lift bridge here.

 
 
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[List of bascule bridges] A list of bascule bridges by country: Birkenhead Bridge carries traffic across the Port River at Port Adelaide Tom 'Diver' Derrick Bridge - Port Adelaide [Michigan Avenue (Chicago)] editorial in the Chicago Tribune newspaper proposed a new Bascule bridge across the river at Michigan Avenue. This plan was further elaborated upon in Daniel Burnham's [Lake Shore Drive] the time the bridge was built, it was the longest and widest bascule bridge in the world. The Lake Shore Drive (Outer Drive) and Link Bridge Photograph [Magnificent Mile] the bascule bridge construction, swing bridges across the river were open for ship traffic during half the daylight hours. The Rush Street Bridge was [Multilevel streets in Chicago] downtown streets crossed the river, and all of these crossings were bascule bridges, which required height clearances at the approaches to and over the [U.S. Route 66 in Illinois] double-leaf bascule trunnion bridges. The bridge at Adams Street and its neighbor at Jackson Boulevard are the only two single deck bridges in the city [Illinois Route 64] built in 2006, replacing a bascule bridge dating back to 1907. Between Halsted Street and Sheffield Avenue, North Avenue has become a shopping destination [Columbus Drive (Chicago)] River via the Columbus Avenue Bridge, a bascule structure built in 1982, and known by many locals as the Chicago kissing bridge. North of the river, it [U.S. Route 41] US 41 continues along Lincoln Avenue in the north side of the city, eventually meeting Skokie Boulevard/Cicero Avenue, where US 41 turns north and parallels [Chattanooga, Tennessee] Market Street Bridge – Officially called the John Ross Bridge, this bridge is a bascule bridge, which is a type of draw bridge. The bridge was completed
 
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Cicero Avenue Bridge - HistoricBridges.org
This bridge is noted as a rare example of a pony truss bascule bridge with three truss lines. A plaque on the bridge says the Cicero Avenue Bridge was "widened  ...
Bridgehunter.com | Cicero Avenue Bridge
Bascule bridge over the Chicago S&S Canal on S. Cicero Avenue (IL 50) in Chicago.
Chicago's movable bridges · Chicago Architecture Center - CAC
One of the few remaining swing bridges can be found east of Cicero Avenue ... Ultimately, though, it was the trunnion bascule bridge that became a Chicago ...
VERTICAL CLEARANCES TABLE - BRIDGES ILLINOIS WATERWAY
317.3. Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal South Cicero Avenue Bridge Twin Span. Bascule. 140.0. 18.6. 596.1. 577.5. Low Operating Level / Flat Pool. NGVD 1929.
List of bascule bridges - Wikipedia
A list of bascule bridges by country: Contents. 1 Australia; 2 Belgium; 3 Canada; 4 Croatia ... Bridge 4 is a twin-leaf, Chicago-type bascule bridge, with its counterweights located under the road deck. .... Canal Bridge over Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal; Cicero Avenue Bridge over Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal; Northbound ...
Chicago Bridges
Most of the city's road bridges are trunnion bascule bridges of a type developed specially for ... Cicero Ave, South, 1927, double-leaf bascule, not operable.
About The Bridge — McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River ...
Learn more about the DuSable Bridge (formerly "Michigan Avenue Bridge"), the first double-leaf, double-deck Chicago type bascule bridge.
Adams Street Bascule Bridge and Viaduct over Chicago Union Station
Project Scope of Work. The Adams Street Bascule Bridge and Viaduct over Chicago. Union Station project consists of the removal and replacement of.
Fort Street Bascule Bridge Operational View - YouTube
Feb 5, 2016 ... Detroit News — The Fort Street Bridge has reopened about a year after work on the span was originally scheduled for completion. One lane of ...
Chicago's seeing fewer bridge lifts. Here's why. - Chicago Tribune
Oct 8, 2018 ... A foggy view shows the lifted State Street Bridge, foreground, and ... wheels begin to turn, and Michigan Avenue's bascule bridge tilts up by ...