Ironworkers Memorial Bridge (Peoria, Illinois)

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Ironworkers Memorial Bridge
Ironworkers Memorial Bridge from the east side of the Illinois River.
Carries	5 lanes (3 WB, 2 EB) of US 24/150
Crosses	Illinois River
Locale	Peoria, Illinois
Maintained by	Illinois Department of Transportation
ID number	WB: 000090011505461 EB: 000090007019729^[1]
Design	Dual Cantilever bridges
Total length	4,745.1 ft (1446.3 m)^[1]
Width	WB: 39.0 ft (11.9 m) EB: 28.9 ft (8.8 m)^[1]
Load limit	WB: 77.2 metric tons EB: 55.8 metric tons^[1]
Clearance below	14.9 m^[1]
AADT	40,400 (combined)^[2]
Opening date	WB: 1982 EB: 1948, reconstructed 2000

This article is about the bridge that carries U.S. 24/150 over the Illinois River north of Peoria, Illinois. For the bridge also known as Second Narrows Bridge in Vancouver, Columbia, see Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing.

The Ironworkers Memorial Bridge carries U.S. Route 24 and U.S. Route 150 over Upper Peoria Lake. It was so named after an accident in 2000 killed three iron workers' when scaffolding on the bridge collapsed 60 feet into the river. The bridge's other, more common, name honors David H. McClugage, mayor of Peoria from 1937 to 1941. The route is actually two steel cantilever bridges, side by side, with three lanes on the westbound bridge and two on the eastbound bridge.