Clark Street Bridge

One of the historic bridge crossings of the Chicago River

The Clark Street Bridge is one of the numerous crossings of the Chicago River in downtown, linking The Loop to the south and River North. Originally, a floating bridge in 1840, what you see today is a...

View of the Clark Street Bridge from our hotel room

My wife and I stayed in the Westin and Had a nice view of the Clark Street Bridge from our hotel room. We crossed it a couple of times when we walked to the location to board the boat for the archite...

Iconic bridge

This is one of a series of bridges that cross over the Chicago river. It is a beautiful bridge and it is fun to watch all of the bridges open as the sail boats go through at the beginning and end of ...

Which Clark Street Bridge was Carl Sandburg writing about?

Are you familiar with Carl Sandburg's poem, "Clark Street Bridge," written in 1916? Well, Sandburg wasn't writing about the Clark Street Bridge as we know it today. It was built in 1929, the eighth br...

Sailboat Passage

We were last in downtown Chicago in the Spring, and learned that on Saturday mornings in the Spring and Fall, sailboats motor as a group in and out to their sailing season berths. The boats slowly nav...