Facts
- Overview
- Pair of cantilevered through truss bridges over Des Plaines River on I-55 southwest of Joliet in Channahon
- Location
- Will County, Illinois
- Status
- Open to four lanes of traffic
- History
- Built 1957; rehabilitated 1997
- Design
- Cantilevered through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 485.7 ft.
Total length: 1,405.4 ft.
Deck width: 32.4 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 17.4 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.42222, -88.19408 (decimal degrees)
41°25'20" N, 88°11'39" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/400218/4586316 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Channahon
- Inventory numbers
- IL 099-0009 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 15740 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 08/2007)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 67.0 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2007)
- 25,050