Editing Chicago River (section)

== McCormick Bridgehouse and Chicago River Museum ==
The southwest bridgehouse of the [[DuSable Bridge]] (Michigan Avenue) serves as a museum on the river, its history, its challenges, and its renaissance. The McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum is a 5-floor, 1,613-square-foot (149.9 m<sup>2</sup>) museum that opened on June 10, 2006; it is named for [[Robert R. McCormick]], formerly owner of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' and president of the Chicago Sanitary District. The Robert R. McCormick Foundation was the major donor that helped meet the $950,000 cost to open the museum. It is run by the Friends of the Chicago River, a non-profit environmental organization. Visitors are also allowed to access the bridge's gear room; during the spring and fall bridge lifting visitors can see the bridge gears in operation as the leaves are raised and lowered. Due to its small size and tight access stairway only 79 people are allowed inside the museum at any one time.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bridgehousemuseum.org/|title=McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum|website=McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191114060118/http://www.bridgehousemuseum.org/|archive-date=November 14, 2019}}</ref> In October 2019, [[Chicago Tribune]] cultural arts writer Steve Johnson profiled the museum, calling its gear room where the DuSable Bridge mechanics can be viewed "a little chamber of heaven for infrastructure nerds".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-chicago-river-museum-bridge-raising-view-ttd-1009-20191008-zckzgt2xjngpho6fd25j53sgz4-story.html|title=Hurried Chicagoans hate it when the river bridges open. The Chicago River Museum sells tickets.|last=Johnson|first=Steve|date=October 8, 2019|work=Chicago Tribune|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191213064839/https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-chicago-river-museum-bridge-raising-view-ttd-1009-20191008-zckzgt2xjngpho6fd25j53sgz4-story.html|archive-date=December 13, 2019}}</ref>