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built 1899-1900 and with current city data crediting Chicago Sanitary District of Chicago, Designer, Designated as a Chicago landmark on December 12, 2007. the public record begins with concrete facts and can move outward into movement infrastructure and corridor planning.
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Why It Matters
Illinois Central Swing Bridge (San & Ship Canal, N of Stevenson Exp & E of Kedzie) stabilizes movement infrastructure, corridor planning, and how the city organized circulation in one public landmark record.
From there, the building can be read through design, use, later change, and neighborhood context instead of remaining a detached image or isolated fact.
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Research Narrative
Illinois Central Swing Bridge (San & Ship Canal, N of Stevenson Exp & E of Kedzie) is held in public view at San & Ship Canal, N of Stevenson Exp & E of Kedzie by the city's landmark record. The current city data lists it as dating to a construction date of 1899-1900 and credits Chicago Sanitary District of Chicago, Designer. It was designated on December 12, 2007. Illinois Central Swing Bridge (San & Ship Canal, N of Stevenson Exp & E of Kedzie) turns into a workable research subject once movement infrastructure, corridor planning, and how the city organized circulation are kept in view together.
Illinois Central Swing Bridge (San & Ship Canal, N of Stevenson Exp & E of Kedzie) starts to make more sense when researchers track span, alignment, or platform relationships, connections to adjoining streets, rail lines, or water, and later mechanical change or deferred maintenance. The point is not just to admire the building but to understand how circulation systems stay visible in structure, alignment, and surrounding land use.
Illinois Central Swing Bridge (San & Ship Canal, N of Stevenson Exp & E of Kedzie) gains a fuller record through engineering records and planning reports, historic maps and photographs, and newspaper coverage of openings, upgrades, and closures. Those materials are where architecture, use, and later stewardship begin to line up against each other.
Illinois Central Swing Bridge (San & Ship Canal, N of Stevenson Exp & E of Kedzie) can hold the first facts in place while the larger history catches up.
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Chicago's public landmark data records Illinois Central Swing Bridge (San & Ship Canal, N of Stevenson Exp & E of Kedzie) as built in 1899-1900.
Designation
City of Chicago designated Illinois Central Swing Bridge (San & Ship Canal, N of Stevenson Exp & E of Kedzie) as an individual landmark on December 12, 2007.
Inventory
Illinois Central Swing Bridge (San & Ship Canal, N of Stevenson Exp & E of Kedzie) remains listed in Chicago's public individual-landmark address list and open-data record.
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