City of the Big shoulders... by chelseagirl
A clout-heavy company with two generations of ties to the Daley family has been chosen to fill in a "missing link" in Chicago's riverwalk at a cost of $8.1 million, double the city's original estimate.
The contract awarded last month calls for Walsh Construction to build a walkway on landfill beneath the Michigan Avenue bridge so pedestrians can stroll along the Chicago River without running upstairs, crossing the street and going back downstairs.
The walkway under Michigan Avenue at Wacker Drive was previously estimated to cost $4 million, according to the Sun-Times.
For more on the riverwalk, check out the City of Chicago's Chicago Riverwalk page and Wacker Drive Riverwalk Study [pdf].
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Brian Boyer
Brian Boyer is a software developer, drawn into the wild world of writing by a strange set of circumstances. This was never the plan. More
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I thought I read a while back that the first two under-walkways were supposed to be completed by the end of the year. I wonder if that's still on track.
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