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 are
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