Roads near the bridge on both the Peoria and Tazewell county sides will be closed starting at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday.

On the week of April 21, the steel girders of trusses 18-26 on the Tazewell County side of the bridge will be blown up. After a break of more than a month, concrete piers 11 and 12 under the main ...

“Constructed between 1958 and 1960, the reinforced steel truss girder bridge was completed by the end of 1960 and officially opened in 1961 by Almarhum Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz ...