Valley City Eagle Bridges

The Valley City Eagle Bridges is a set of bridges that carry Interstate 72 and U.S. Route 36 across the Illinois River. The bridge is located near Valley City, Illinois, the smallest municipality in the state.^[3]

Valley City Eagle Bridges
The Valley City Eagle Bridges from westbound I-72 just past the Bluffs exit.
Coordinates	39.68838°N 90.64182°W / 39.68838; -90.64182
Carries	4 lanes of I-72 / US 36[1]
Crosses	Illinois River
Maintained by	Illinois Department of Transportation
Characteristics
Design	Concrete box girder twin bridges
Total length	3,203 feet (976 m)[1]
Width	39 feet (12 m)[1]
History
Construction end	1988[1]
Opened	1992[2]
Statistics
Daily traffic	4,325[1]
Location

Description

The bridges are post tensioned cast-in-place concrete box girder bridges. Each bridge has two lanes of travel on a 39-foot deck. The bridge has roughly 7,500 travelers per day.

History

The bridges were completed in 1988. The highway was not completed until 1992, when Highway 36 was rerouted onto I-72 and the older Florence Bridge began carrying Illinois Routes 100 and 106.

See also

• Transport portal
• Engineering portal
• Illinois portal
• List of crossings of the Illinois River