La Salle Street Bridge

For the bridge in South Bend, Indiana, see La Salle Street Bridge (South Bend, Indiana).

La Salle Street Bridge
View of LaSalle Street Bridge from Wells Street Bridge
Official name	La Salle Street Bridge
Other name(s)	Marshall Suloway Bridge
Carries	Automobiles Pedestrians
Crosses	Chicago River
Locale	Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
Maintained by	Chicago Department of Transportation
ID number	000016603226800
Designer	Donald Becker
Total length	242 feet (74 m)
Width	86 feet (26 m)
Longest span	220 feet (67 m)
Vertical clearance	18.7 feet (5.7 m)
Opened	1928
Daily traffic	12050[1]
Coordinates	41°53′15″N 87°37′57″W / 41.887484°N 87.632474°W / 41.887484; -87.632474Coordinates: 41°53′15″N 87°37′57″W / 41.887484°N 87.632474°W / 41.887484; -87.632474

The La Salle Street Bridge (or 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, Franklin, and Clark streets, was approved in 1916.^[5]

References

1. ^ "NBI Structure Number: 000016603226800". http://nationalbridges.com/nbi_record.php?StateCode=17&struct=000016603226800. Retrieved 2010-08-01. ^{[dead link]}
2. ^ "Chicago River Bascule Bridge, LaSalle Street". Historic American Engineering Record. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hh:@field(DOCID+@lit(IL0821)). Retrieved 2010-08-01. 
3. ^ "Widening of LaSalle Street, New Bridge to be Ready by Nov. 1". Chicago Tribune. 1928-09-30. 
4. ^ "La Salle Street Boulevard Plan". Chicago Daily Tribune. 1902-04-10. 
5. ^ "Bridge Eyesores Will Give Way to Beauty Plans". Chicago Daily Tribune. 1916-02-18.