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Below is a list of covered bridges in Illinois.There are nine authentic covered bridges in the U.S. state of Illinois.Five of them are historic. [1] A covered bridge is considered authentic not due to its age, but by its construction.
Holzbrücke Rapperswil-Hurden is a wooden pedestrian bridge between the city of Rapperswil and the village of Hurden crossing the Obersee (the upper part of Lake Zurich) in Switzerland. On 6 April 2001, the footbridge was opened. With a length of 841 metres (2,759 ft) it is the longest wooden bridge in Switzerland. The wooden bridge has many ...
The one-lane bridge carries Robert Parker Coffin Road over Buffalo Creek in Long Grove, a village located 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Chicago, Illinois. [2]: 4 It connects the Long Grove Community Church to the southwest with downtown Long Grove, formed at the road's intersection with Old McHenry Road, to the northeast.
Another relatively undisturbed section is in the wooded area just north of Cuba Road and east of Rand Road. A beautiful section of canopy trees over the old rail bed was found there in 2007. Farther north in Lake Zurich along the east side of Old Rand Road and just south of Kitts the raised bed is clearly seen from Old Rand Road during the winter.
On October 16, 1958, Brickman Builders of Chicago announced their intent to build a planned community "of the future" consisting of 20,000 residential units in Ela Township, Lake County. This planned community would cover 9 square miles (23 km 2) south and southeast of Lake Zurich. It would contain 16,000 single-family homes, 6,000 apartments ...
Rapperswil is located on the northern shore of Lake Zurich at the point at which the lake is cut in two by the Seedamm isthmus, which is an ice age moraine. The upper (or eastern) part of Lake Zurich is called Obersee. Part of the old town, the castle and monastery are situated on a peninsula.
Wooden-trussed bridge Sylvan Road Bridge: 1915 1978-06-23 Glencoe: Cook: Frank Lloyd Wright's only bridge Tartar's Ferry Bridge: ca. 1880: 1980-10-29 Smithfield: Fulton: Parker Third Street Bridge (Delavan, Illinois) 1907 1999-05-20 Delavan
IL-50: Chicago River Bridge, Cermak Road Extant Rolling lift (Scherzer) bascule: 1906 1988 West Cermak Road: South Branch of Chicago River: Chicago: Cook: IL-51: Chicago River Bridge, West Adams Street Extant Simple trunnion bascule: 1926 1987