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Seesaws for giants – Aresluna

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Chasing Chicago’s movable bridges

Seesaws for giants – Aresluna Seesaws for giants Chasing Chicago’s movable bridges Canal Street Bridge · 8:40am Chicago is a city of bridges but, more importantly for that one weekend day in April 2011, Chicago is a city of movable bridges. Every spring, a few times a week, twenty-seven bridges open in sequence to allow the boats to get to the lake… and every fall that sequence is reversed. I flew to Chicago for the weekend so that my local friend Jen and I could chase those bridges as they opened and closed. Here’s a map. We started in the south-western corner with Ashland Avenue Bridge: It w

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