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Chicago River BridgesPresentation
by Patrick T. McBriarty
asce Iowa Chapter November 14, 2016
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WRITTEN BY
Patrick T. McBriartyILLUSTRATED BY
Johanna H. Kim www.PTMWerks.com
Just Released
978-1-941216-02-6October 2014
DRAWBRIDGES
Open and Close
978-1-941216-04-0April 2015
AIRPLANES
Take Off and Land
978-1-941216-14-9October 2016
CITY RAILWAYS
Go Above and Below
The PTM Werks Series is published by CurlyQ Press, an imprint of Applewood Books, distributed by Ingram and available at finer booksellers, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble.com
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The Story starts at Kinzie Street
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Why Bridges?
• Engineer-want-to-be
• Magic and gritty aesthetic
• Fantastic untold history
• Chicago has long been a crucible for drawbridge innovation
• Wanted to share this new appreciation for Bridges
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Chicago DrawbridgesThe documentary co-produced with Chicago filmmaker Stephen Hatch
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• Ancient creations - Natural & Man-made
• Universal, Utilitarian, and magical
• Ubiquitous - simplest forms are still in use today
• Elemental to our civilization - most everyone has a bridge story
• Bridges infected our language, customs, & relations
Bridges are fascinating
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Chicago’s Drawbridges
• Most Drawbridges in North America
• 64 highway & railroad
• 41 are operational.
• Second to Amsterdam (approx. 90+).
• Spring and Fall openings on the Chicago River.
• Open on Demand on the Calumet River.
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the Drawbridge Capital of the World
• Chicagoans hold 120 plus of approx. 350 U.S. Patents on drawbridges.
• 60% of approx. 120 bascule patents.
• Most modern drawbridge designs were invented, built, and/or tested here.
• Host to the greatest variety of moveable bridge designs.
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Y-Shaped River
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Rapid Growth
Chicago in 1874
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Historic Waterway
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Busy Waterway
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Flat Prairie Landscape
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Bridges by DecadeCity of Chicago Chicago River Bridges
Decade Population Draw Fixed
1830 1,000† 0 0
1840 4,853 3 0
1850 29,963 7 2
1860 109,260 16 1
1870 298,977 26 0
1880 503,185 36 1
1890 1,099,850 48 4
1900 1,698,575 57 11
1910 2,185,283 60 13
1920 2,701,705 60 15
1930 3,376,438 68 18
1940 3,396,808 71 17
1950 3,620,962 72 16
1960 3,550,404 73 18
1970 3,369,359 67 24
1980 3,005,072 61 28
1990 2,783,726 61 29
2000 2,896,016 57 31
2010 2,695,598 55 32Table includes both street and railroad bridges.
† Estimated to be approximately 80% Native Americans.
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Evolution of Bridge Designs
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Chicago’s First Bridges Kinzie Street Bridge (1832-1839) & South Branch Bridge (1833-1838)
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Chicago’s 1st DrawbridgeDearborn Street Bridge (1834-1839)
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Pontoon Swing BridgesRandolph Street (1838-1847), Kinzie Street (1839-1849),
Clark Street (1840-1849), Wells Street (1841-1847), & Madison Street Bridges (1847-1849)
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Holy Name Cathedral 735 N. State Street -- Photo Credit Keturah Davis
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Pontoon Swing Operation
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Pontoon Bridges Destroyed by the Flood of 1849
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Innovations and Pontoon Turntable Swing Bridge
(1849-1860s)
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Clark Street Bridge looking east in 1857 from Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion.
Pivot or Swing Bridges (1852-1890s)
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Turntables
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Swing Bridge Design
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Chicago - a center for Bridge Building & new Technology
• Attracted Top Engineers
• John Ericson
• Ralph Modjeski
• Theodore Rall
• Joseph B. Strauss & many others.
• Bridge building companies
• American Bridge Company
• Chicago Bridge & Iron,
• Great Lakes Dredge & Dock,
• Fox & Howard
• Scherzer Rolling Lift Bascule Bridge Co., etc.
• 1st iron bridge
• Rush St. in 1864.
• 1st steel swing bridge in 1879
• C&NW Bridge
• Glasgow Railroad Bridge (Missouri River)
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Steel, Ships & Industry
• Steel meant larger ships
• Busy Chicago River
• 21,000 arrivals and departures in 1887.
• The Calumet River & Harbor develops after 1871
• Required a wider river channel.
• River and Harbors Act of 1890
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Inadequacy of the Swing Bridge
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Experimental Period
• Federal oversight
• A new design was required
• Inventors and engineers see opportunity
• Shift to the Calumet River
• Yet still need Chicago River Bridges
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First Experiment: Harman Folding-Lift Bridge
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Weed Street Bridge (1891-1899)
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2nd Canal Street Bridge (1893-1903)
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Second Experiment: Vertical-Lift Bridge
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3rd S. Halsted Street Bridge (1894-1931)
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Pennsylvania Railroad & Amtrak Bridge
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3rd Experiment: Scherzer Rolling-Lift Bridge
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Bascule Bridge Operation
Bascule is a French meaning seesaw. It is derived from baculer, which means to strike on the buttocks and likely originally described landing on one’s buttocks (bas is the French equivalent of down; -culer is a verbal derivative of rump or buttocks).
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Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Operation
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5th Van Buren Street & the Met Bridges (1895-1956)
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Cermak Road Bridge
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8-track Railroad Bridge
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City of Chicago Engineers
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Fixed Trunnion Bascule
Tower Bridge in London built between 1886 and 1894.
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Cortland Street Bridge - 1902
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3 of 10 Remain • Cortland St.
• W. Division St.
• Kinzie St. (E. Division St. removed - July 2014)
Functional -1st Gen. Chicago-type
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2nd Gen. Chicago-type (20 of 24 Remain)
Washington Street Bridge (1914-Present)
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Chicago Ave. Bridge
(1914-Present)
integrates the bridge houses into the
architecture
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Lake Street Bridge (1916-Present)
1st Chicago-type double-deck, double-leaf bridge
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LaSalle Street Bridge (1928-Present)
2nd Gen. Chicago-type - wm. Bennett’s - Beaux Arts Influence
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N. Ashland Ave. Bridge (1936-Present)
2nd Gen. Refinement Period Chicago-type - Art Deco
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State Street Bridge Built in 1949
Post WWII Chicago-type - Art Deco
Further design refinements. More modern architectural styles.One-person operation.
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N. Halsted Street Bridge (river) (1955-Present)
Post WWII Chicago-type - Single Bridge House
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Columbus Drive Bridge (1982-Present) Modern Chicago-type
2nd Largest Bascule Bridge in the World
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Future of Chicago Drawbridges
• Main & South Branch Status quo
• Bridge lifts spring & fall
• Replacement of older North Branch drawbridges.
• The greatest working drawbridge museum in the world.
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Chicago has the greatest variety of drawbridge designs of any city on earth.
• Swing Bridges
• Center pier Swing Bridges
• Bobtail Swing Bridges
• Eccentric Bobtail Swing Bridge
• Vertical-lift Bridges
• Bascule Bridges
• Chicago-type single leaf bridges
• Chicago-type double leaf bridges
• Chicago-type double deck, double deck bridges
• Page bascule bridge
• Rall bascule Bridge
• Scherzer rolling-lift bridges
• Strauss heel-trunnion bridges
• Strauss fixed trunnion bridge
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Chicago River Bridges Tour
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Chicago Bridge Stories
• First bridge in Chicago in 1832.
• 1st Dearborn Street Bridge and Holy Name Cathedral 1839-1840.
• The Flood of 1849 destroyed six bridges.
• Destruction of the Rush Street Bridge in 1863.
• Great Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed eight bridges.
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Bridge Stories (cont.)
• Michigan Avenue Bridge opening almost crushed four cars.
• Drucci’s then Sgts.Touhy & Klatzko’s jump of the Michigan Avenue Bridge in 1922.
• Flood of 1992 at Kinzie Street Bridge.
• Richard Dorsay living in LSD Bridge in 2004.