Ashland Avenue over Cal Sag Channel

(Bridge Hunter; 3D Satellite)

Photo taken by Roger Deschner in September 2013   License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA), cropped

Via Bridge Hunter: The Ashland Avenue Bridge viewed from the east, almost completely hides the I-57 girder bridge behind it. The Division Street Bridge is visible in the distant background.
[The comments indicate the clearance is 26'.]

MWRD posted
Historical photo of the week: Construction of the original Ashland Ave. bridge over the Cal-Sag Channel on October 8, 1917. The 16-mile, 60-foot-wide channel was completed in 1922 and was later widened to its current width of approximately 225 feet.
Joseph Obrien Least not forget that it was first dug as a feeder canal for the I and M canal completed in 1848. I believe that it was 40 ft. wide and 4 ft . deep.