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built 1898-1900 and with current city data crediting Chicago Sanitary District of Chicago, Designer, Designated as a Chicago landmark on December 12, 2007. it becomes easier to follow movement infrastructure, corridor planning, and later change at Illinois Central Swing Bridge (San & Ship Canal, S of 35th St & E of Pulaski Rd).
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Illinois Central Swing Bridge (San & Ship Canal, S of 35th St & E of Pulaski Rd) stabilizes movement infrastructure, corridor planning, and how the city organized circulation in one public landmark record.
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Illinois Central Swing Bridge (San & Ship Canal, S of 35th St & E of Pulaski Rd) is located at San & Ship Canal, S of 35th St & E of Pulaski Rd in the city's landmark record. The current city data lists it as dating to a construction date of 1898-1900 and credits Chicago Sanitary District of Chicago, Designer. It was designated on December 12, 2007. Illinois Central Swing Bridge (San & Ship Canal, S of 35th St & E of Pulaski Rd) keeps movement infrastructure, corridor planning, and how the city organized circulation attached to one building instead of dissolving into general background.
Illinois Central Swing Bridge (San & Ship Canal, S of 35th St & E of Pulaski Rd) reveals more once fieldwork compares span, alignment, or platform relationships, connections to adjoining streets, rail lines, or water, and later mechanical change or deferred maintenance. Those clues are often the clearest route into how circulation systems stay visible in structure, alignment, and surrounding land use.
Illinois Central Swing Bridge (San & Ship Canal, S of 35th St & E of Pulaski Rd) gains a fuller record through engineering records and planning reports, historic maps and photographs, and newspaper coverage of openings, upgrades, and closures. Those records help separate what the landmark file says from what the longer building history actually shows.
Illinois Central Swing Bridge (San & Ship Canal, S of 35th St & E of Pulaski Rd) becomes clearer when later research stays attached to the building instead of drifting into abstraction.
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Chicago's public landmark data records Illinois Central Swing Bridge (San & Ship Canal, S of 35th St & E of Pulaski Rd) as built in 1898-1900.
Designation
City of Chicago designated Illinois Central Swing Bridge (San & Ship Canal, S of 35th St & E of Pulaski Rd) as an individual landmark on December 12, 2007.
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Illinois Central Swing Bridge (San & Ship Canal, S of 35th St & E of Pulaski Rd) remains listed in Chicago's public individual-landmark address list and open-data record.
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