Bridge Name: | La Salle Street Bridge |
Official Name: | Marshall Suloway Bridge |
Carries: | Automobiles Pedestrians |
Crosses: | Chicago River |
Locale: | Chicago, Cook County, Illinois |
Maint: | Chicago Department of Transportation |
Id: | 000016603226800 |
Designer: | Donald Becker |
Mainspan: | 220feet |
Length: | 242feet |
Width: | 86feet |
Clearance: | 18.7feet |
Traffic: | 12050[1] |
Open: | 1928 |
Coordinates: | 41.8875°N -87.6325°W |
The La Salle Street Bridge (officially the 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 Street, Franklin Street, and Clark Street, was approved in 1916.[5]
The Chicago City Council renamed the bridge in 1999 to honor former Chicago Department of Public Works Commissioner Marshall Suloway.[6]