GoKawiilMarcin Wichary 25 August 2014 / 900 words / 50 photos
Seesaws for giants
Chasing Chicago’s movable bridges
Canal Street Bridge · 8:40am
Chicago is a city of bridges but, more importantly for that one weekend day in April 2011, Chicago is a city of movable bridges.
Every spring, a few times a week, twenty-seven bridges open in sequence to allow the boats to get to the lake… and every fall that sequence is reversed.
I flew to Chicago for the weekend so that my local friend Jen and I could chase those bridges as they opened and closed.
Here’s a map. We started in the south-western corner with Ashland Avenue Bridge:
It was amazing; we were looking at structures weighing thousands of tons moving up and down without little apparent effort.
Ashland Avenue Bridge · 8am
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