3 sections of new beams form the main span of the Flyover in the middle of the interchange.
Chicago survived the overnight closures while crews installed beams for the new Jane Byrne Interchange Flyover this summer, but there remains a tremendous amount of work to be done throughout the complicated junction. Not only does the Flyover itself need to be completed, but there’s also the matter of reconnecting the Dan Ryan to Congress Parkway, rebuilding what will be the north-bound lanes of the Halsted Street bridge over the Eisenhower, and spanning Harrison Street over the Ryan’s inbound lanes.
Sounds complicated, right? While we’re sure engineering teams have all the plans figured out, for now it looks like it’d be far too easy to take a wrong turn and plunge into the abyss from a dead-end bridge. Either that, or someone’s reenacting that bus scene from “Speed.”
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- This is the south end of the curving Byrne Flyover bridge.
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- And this would be the west end, aiming to cross over top of Halsted Street.
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- Crews work over top of the Day Ryan Expressway on fresh beams for the Harrison Street bridge.
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- The on-ramp to the Flyover from the Dan Ryan, which will also serve as the connection to inbound Congress Parkway.
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- Exposed beams of the Flyover on-ramp.
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- The scar formerly known as the ramp to inbound Congress parkway from the Ryan used to attach.
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- The seamy underbelly of the removed Congress Parkway on-ramp.
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- The future southbound lanes of the Halsted Street bridge.
Location: I-290 at I-90/94, West Loop
Daniel Schell is a West Loop social media addict who lives for Cubs baseball, good pizza, and big cities. If you bump into him on the street, it's likely because he's taking photos instead of watching where he's going, and he apologizes.
