| La Salle Street Bridge | |
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View of LaSalle Street Bridge from Wells Street Bridge |
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| Official name | La Salle Street Bridge |
| Other name(s) | Marshall Suloway Bridge |
| Carries | Automobiles Pedestrians |
| Crosses | Chicago River |
| Locale | Chicago, Cook County, Illinois |
| Maintained by | Chicago Department of Transportation |
| ID number | 000016603226800 |
| Designer | Donald Becker |
| Total length | 242 feet (74 m) |
| Width | 86 feet (26 m) |
| Longest span | 220 feet (67 m) |
| Vertical clearance | 18.7 feet (5.7 m) |
| Opened | 1928 |
| Daily traffic | 12050[1] |
The La Salle Street Bridge (or Marshall Suloway Bridge) is a single-deck double-leaf trunnion bascule bridge spanning the main stem of the Chicago River in Chicago, Illinois,[2] that connects the Near North Side with the Loop area. It was constructed in 1928 at a cost of $2,500,000[3] by the Strobel Steel Constructing Company.
The bridge was part of a scheme to widen LaSalle Street and improve access from the Loop to the north side of the river that had been proposed as early as 1902.[4] The design of the bridge, along with those for new bridges at Madison, Franklin, and Clark streets, was approved in 1916.[5]
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