General Information
| Completion: | 1948 |
|---|---|
| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Motorway bridge / freeway bridge |
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| Structure: |
Through truss bridge |
| Material: |
Steel bridge |
| Support conditions: |
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| Structure: |
Cantilever truss bridge |
| Material: |
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Location
| Location: |
Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA Tazewell County, Illinois, USA |
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| Address: | U.S. Route 150 |
| Crosses: |
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| Next to: |
McClugage Bridge (1982)
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| Coordinates: | 40° 43' 13.40" N 89° 32' 50.53" W |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 190 m | |
| width | 8.8 m | |
| total length | 1 446.3 m |
Materials
| piers |
reinforced concrete
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|---|---|
| truss |
steel
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Excerpt from Wikipedia
The McClugage Bridge carries U.S. Route 150 over Upper Peoria Lake & Peoria Lake in the Illinois River in the US state of Illinois. The bridge's official name honors David H. McClugage, mayor of Peoria from 1937 to 1941. The crossing is actually composed of two bridges, one carrying westbound traffic and one carrying eastbound traffic.
Southern span
The original span of the McClugage Bridge was designed as a steel cantilever bridge in 1939 to replace the Upper Free Bridge, an existing bridge across a narrow stretch of Upper Peoria Lake. Due to World War II, the bridge was not completed until 1948. The southern span was rehabilitated in 2000. During rehabilitation, an accident in 2000 killed three iron workers when scaffolding on the bridge collapsed 62 feet (19 m) into the river. Due to this tragedy, there was an effort to change the name of the bridge to "Ironworkers Memorial Bridge". However, instead of the name change, the iron workers were memorialized by a monument near the bridge that was dedicated in April 2001.
Northern span
An additional three-lane span of similar style was constructed immediately north of the existing bridge in 1982. Currently, the northern span carries westbound traffic and the original southern two-lane span carries eastbound traffic.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "McClugage Bridge" and modified on April 6, 2021 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
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20080916 - Published on:
02/04/2021 - Last updated on:
06/04/2021
