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Wednesday morning marks the first day of the city’s annual fall bridge lift and drivers caught by a raised bridge should expect long waits.
At 9:30 AM, just after the morning rush hour subsides, the Lake Shore Drive bridge will be raised to allow the season’s first flotilla of sail boats to enter the Chicago River on their way to dry dock storage according to the Chicago Department of Transportation.
Every Wednesday at 9:30 AM and Saturday mornings at 9, from late September through mid November, a pair of city bridge tenders raise the 27 movable bridges sequentially along the main and south branches of the river to allow these tall masted ships to pass without obstruction.
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