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Kinzie and Street
Rehabilitation work on the Kinzie Street Bridge crossing the Chicago River required new pilings.
Langford drove to the Merchandise Mart, which is located near the Kinzie Street Bridge, and reported on WMAQ that he saw water swirling near a piling in a manner that that resembled water going down the drain of a bathtub.
The leak was eventually stopped by Kenny Construction, a private contracting company, by drilling shafts into the flooded tunnel near Kinzie Street and placing emergency plugs in it.
In fact, the Kinzie Street river crossing was clearly delineated on the city maps: the typical tunnel ran down the center of the old streets.
At Kinzie Street, like some of the other river crossings, veered off to the side as the historic Kinzie bridge ( at the time of the tunnel construction ) was a pivoting bridge with a central pivot in the middle of the street.
Kinzie Street ( 400N ) in Chicago is named for him.
Bordered by Orleans, Wells and Kinzie Streets, the site was a former Native American trading post and the site of Chicago and North Western Railway's former Wells Street Station, abandoned in 1911 in favor of the Chicago and North Western Passenger Terminal.
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After several false starts, including the destruction of his first inventory by the Great Chicago Fire, Ward started his business at his first office, either in a single room at 825 North Clark Street, or in a loft above a livery stable on Kinzie Street between Rush and State Streets.
In the late 1840s the surrounding area was on the fringes of Chicago and a group of Irish immigrants started squatting on the unoccupied land around what is now Kinzie Street, between Franklin Street and the river.
On January 3, 2005, the upper and lower levels were closed at Kinzie Street for reconstruction ( in conjunction with the Trump Tower Chicago development ) but have since been reopened.
The north end of CUS trackage is at the curve near Kinzie Street, west of which the PCC & StL and CM & StP shared trackage to a split at Western Avenue.
Wells Street Station was a passenger terminal of the Chicago and North Western Railway, located at the southwest corner of Wells Street and Kinzie Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.
It was replaced in 1911 by the Chicago and North Western Terminal on the other ( west ) side of the North Branch of the Chicago River, removing passenger trains from the Kinzie Street railroad bridge over the river.
The Wells Street Station was bounded by the Chicago River to the south and west, Kinzie Street to the north and Wells Street to the east leaving no room for expansion ; furthermore, as both rail and ship traffic increased, the movable bridge over the river resulted in congestion.

Kinzie and Bridge
:" I have found something very interesting in the Chicago River on the east side of the Kinzie Bridge.

Street and Bridge
California State Route 61 runs down city streets from the Posey and Webster Street Tubes, across the Bay Farm Island Bridge, and south to the Oakland Airport.
A. J. Cronin's uncle owned a pub in Bridge Street.
Gone are the days when the Hoffman House flourished on Madison Square, with its famous nudes by Bouguereau ; when barrooms were palaces, on nearly every corner throughout the city ; when Steve Brodie, jumping from Brooklyn Bridge, splashed the entire country with publicity ; when Bowery concert halls dispensed schooners of beer for a nickel, with a stage show thrown in ; when Theis's Music Hall still resounded on 14th Street with its great mechanical organ, the wonder of its day, a place of beauty, with fine paintings and free company and the frankest of female life.
Brain, who knows Snake, tells him that the self-proclaimed " Duke of New York " ( Isaac Hayes ), has the President and plans to lead a mass escape across the mined and heavily guarded 69th Street Bridge, using the President as a human shield.
* The Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge, sometimes referred to as the South Capitol Street Bridge, just south of the US Capitol in Washington DC, was built in 1950 and named in his honor.
The name of Yee Wo Street in Hong Kong's East Point and Causeway Bay Districts comes from Jardine's Chinese name " Ewo " whilst other locations associated with the company include Jardine's Bazaar, Jardine's Crescent, Jardine's Bridge, Jardine's Lookout, Yee Wo Street, Matheson Street, Jardine House and the Noon-day Gun.
* 1982 – Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet crashes into Washington, D. C .' s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists.
He became friendly with fellow German Alfred Baumgarten and worked for the Molsons Bank on Stanley Street in Montreal and then for the engineering firm M. P. and J. T. Davis on the Quebec Bridge reconstruction.
It began to take off in 1847 when the Main Street Bridge was constructed over the Grand River.
He linked his two buildings with an arched stone screen, Caröe Bridge, along Pembroke Street in a late Baroque style, the principal function of which was to act as a bridge by which undergraduates might cross the Master's forecourt at first-floor level from Pitt Building to New Court without leaving the College or trespassing in what was then the Fellows ' Garden.
In Pittsburgh, the 6th Street Bridge was renamed in his memory, and the Pirates retired his number 21 at the start of the 1973 season.
* Duncan, Francis, A Description of the Island Of St Helena Containing Observations on its Singular Structure and Formation and an Account of its Climate, Natural History, and Inhabitants, London, Printed For R Phillips, 6 Bridge Street, Blackfriars, 1805
Several landmarks in present day Hong Kong are named after the firm and the founders Jardine and Matheson like Jardine's Bazaar, Jardine's Crescent, Jardine's Bridge, Jardine's Lookout, Yee Wo Street, Matheson Street, Jardine House and the Noon Day Gun.
* January 13 – Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90 crashes into Washington, D. C .' s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78.
* December 9 – The world's first traffic signal lights are installed at the junction of Great George Street and Bridge Street in the London borough of Westminster.
Artist's rendering of the fire, by John R. Chapin, originally printed in Harper's Weekly ; the view faces northeast across the Randolph Street Bridge.
The Calvert Street Bridge was renamed the Duke Ellington Bridge ; built in 1935, it connects Woodley Park to Adams Morgan.
Major bus depots include the Port Authority Bus Terminal at 42nd Street, the George Washington Bridge Bus Station, and the Journal Square Transportation Center in Jersey City.

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