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Milwaukee Avenue Bridge
Posted by:
tomz
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Date: December 03, 2011 01:26PM
There used to a Milwaukee Avenue Bridge at the south end of the street.
Look at the upper-left-hand corner of this 1937 aerial photo:
[url=http://ilaerialphotos.com/images/counties/Cook/images/0bwq08050.jpg]http://ilaerialphotos.com/images/counties/Cook/images/0bwq08050.jpg[/url]
and you can see where the ramp started at Kinzie up to the Bridge and over the railyard before it went down to Fulton that picks up again for that last little stretch before terminating at Lake.
You can see where it's gone from this Google map: [url=http://g.co/maps/ebzqg]http://g.co/maps/ebzqg[/url]
Anyone got a photo of this bridge? Or does anyone remember it? Images or stories would be most welcome.
Thanks much.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/03/2011 01:40PM by tomz.
Look at the upper-left-hand corner of this 1937 aerial photo:
[url=http://ilaerialphotos.com/images/counties/Cook/images/0bwq08050.jpg]http://ilaerialphotos.com/images/counties/Cook/images/0bwq08050.jpg[/url]
and you can see where the ramp started at Kinzie up to the Bridge and over the railyard before it went down to Fulton that picks up again for that last little stretch before terminating at Lake.
You can see where it's gone from this Google map: [url=http://g.co/maps/ebzqg]http://g.co/maps/ebzqg[/url]
Anyone got a photo of this bridge? Or does anyone remember it? Images or stories would be most welcome.
Thanks much.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/03/2011 01:40PM by tomz.
Re: Milwaukee Avenue Bridge
Posted by:
captain54
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Date: December 04, 2011 03:52AM
that section of Milwaukee was built to traverse the RR tracks, and when those tracks disappeared, the land was obtained for development and that stretch of Milwaukee became obsolete..I remember it being dismantled sometime in the 80's
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/20205384@N03/2585899233/]
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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/20205384@N03/2585899233/]Missing section of Milwaukee Ave[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/20205384@N03/]captain54_01[/url], on Flickr
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/20205384@N03/2585899233/]
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/20205384@N03/2585899233/]Missing section of Milwaukee Ave[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/20205384@N03/]captain54_01[/url], on Flickr
Re: Milwaukee Avenue Bridge
Posted by:
captain54
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Date: December 07, 2011 02:59PM
that photo was more than likely taken from the roof of the 410 N Milwaukee building.. It has some Chicago and NW RR stone embossed logos etched at the top, so I'm assuming it was at some point a Chi and NW RR warehouse or freight storage type facility. It now the Pickens Kane building and house some other businesses...
I've always been interested in the history of that building, but up until now I've not been able to find anything on the history except that it was built in 1932
I've always been interested in the history of that building, but up until now I've not been able to find anything on the history except that it was built in 1932
Re: Milwaukee Avenue Bridge
Posted by:
tomz
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Date: August 27, 2013 03:26PM
Just ran across [url=http://chicagopast.com/image/56985981487]a much clearer version[/url] of the pic above.
Re: Milwaukee Avenue Bridge
Posted by:
Jeff_Weiner
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Date: August 27, 2013 06:39PM
The south end of the bridge was blocked off, an demolition begining, when I worked at the the corner of Clinton, Milwaukee, and Fulton, back in 1982. There was a push by one engineer in Public Works, John LaPlante, to eliminate the diagonal streets, and this probably was part of that. When LaPlante lost his job as Commissioner during the Loop flood, that concept got shelved. Practically all of area where the southeast end of the bridge has been rebuilt, and nothing remains of the Milwaukee right-of-way in the northwest portion of the intersection. The City even removed the traffic signals to discourage through traffic.
