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Chicago Riverwalk as seen from Upper Wacker Drive looking down at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The Chicago Riverwalk is a multi-use public open space located on the south bank of the main branch of the Chicago River in Chicago, extending from Lake Michigan and the Outer Drive Bridge westward to the Wolf Point area and Lake Street. [1]
The Chicago and North Western Railway's Kinzie Street railroad bridge (also known as the Carroll Avenue bridge or the Chicago and North Western Railroad Bridge) is a single leaf bascule bridge across the north branch of the Chicago River in downtown Chicago, Illinois. At the time of its opening in 1908 it was the world's longest and heaviest ...
The St. Charles Air Line Bridge is a Strauss Trunnion bascule bridge which spans the Chicago River in Chicago, Illinois. Built as part of the St. Charles Air Line Railroad by the American Bridge Company in 1919, the bridge originally had a span of 260 feet (79 m). This bridge held the world record for longest bascule-type span until 1930, when ...
CHICAGO - The Chicago River turning green kicked off Chicago's St. Patrick's day festivities this morning. Thousands looked on and then stuck around for the annual downtown parade that made its ...
The tunnel breach eventually led to the Chicago flood, which flooded the Chicago Loop with an estimated 250 million US gallons (1,000,000 m 3) of water. [3] In August 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus passing over the bridge dumped 800 pounds of human waste through the open metal grate bridge deck into the Chicago River. The waste landed on ...
A boulevard to link the parks on Chicago's north and south sides was proposed as early as 1891. [4] An early plan called for a tunnel to link Michigan Avenue south of the river with Pine Street (now Michigan Avenue) north of the river. [17] In 1903 an editorial in the Chicago Tribune proposed a new bascule bridge across the river at Michigan ...
USS Enterprise, the longest aircraft carrier ever built, was inactivated in December 2012. [73] [74] Paul R. Tregurtha: Lake freighter: 309 m (1,014 ft) 1981– In service The current Queen of the Lakes (the longest ship operating on the Great Lakes), and last of the "1000-footers" launched there. [75]
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