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Key Facts |
Bridge Name | Type | Road | Location | City | Crossing |
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Ohio Street Bridge |
Bascule (Truss) |
I-90 / I-94 Ramp |
Cook County, IL |
Chicago |
Chicago River North Branch |
I have only a few overview photos for this bridge. It is unlike the other unusual deck truss bridges in Chicago like on Wabash Avenue, and is more like deck truss bascule bridges found elsewhere like on Fort Street in Detroit. I found it to be an attractive bridge, when I viewed it from the Grand Avenue Bridge.
Adam Kerman provided the following information:
The Ohio Street bridge over the north branch of the Chicago River was built as part of the Kennedy Expressway construction in the late 1950s, most of which opened in 1960. It's part of a feeder from Wells Street, three lanes in each direction (getting rid of shoulders during a reconstruction). Note that the expressway feeder is immediately north of the original alignment of Ohio Street, which never had a bridge at this point that I know of. Erie Street, nearby, did have a bridge but it was removed years ago. I never saw it. A swath of mostly industrial buildings were demolished between Ohio and Ontario Streets to build the feeder.
