This unusual steel bridge over the Kankakee River carries a persistent local story that some of its metal came from the original 1893 Chicago World's Fair Ferris wheel. The bridge itself is real and historically significant, while the Ferris-wheel connection is best treated as legend rather than settled fact.
Filed under folklore: stories a place tells about itself, passed down and still repeated.
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