Rush Street Bridges
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Description: The Encyclopedia of Chicago provides an illustrated article on the collapse of an iron bridge in Chicago in 1863, and on the fate of other bridges built subsequently.
Interpretive Digital Essay : Water in Chicago Over the course of Chicago’s history, bridges have been replaced at many crucial locations across the Chicago region. In downtown Chicago, bridges remain at essentially the same places that they have been since the 1850s. Virtually all are sited along key streets in and out of the Loop. However, most have been replaced several times–in response to disasters that have destroyed bridges, as well as improvements in bridge technology that rendered existing bridges obsolete. Twice in the nineteenth century, all of the bridges on the main stem of the Chicago River were destroyed overnight: the first in March 1849 when ice swept away all of the bridges in a spring storm; and the second in October 1871 during the Chicago Fire.
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