• Third Friday Presents: “Chicago Bridges: Brilliance & Blunder”

    Chicago Maritime Museum 1200 W. 35th St., Chicago, IL, United States

    Mitchell Trachtenberg presents a  wonderful talk about the history of Chicago's best-known infrastructure.  Since the city's beginning, moving bridges have been built to cross the river while allowing shipping.  Going through generations of design shifts and re-invention, these causeways became both iconic and infuriating to Chicagoans. Mitchell