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Congress Parkway Bridge

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Old Post Office Chicago 2022
Old Post Office Chicago 2022

Congress Parkway Bridge, also known as Ida B. Wells Drive Bridge and officially named the Wagner Memorial Bridge, is a seven-lane bascule bridge crossing the South Branch Chicago River, providing an expressway connection between Interstate 290 (Eisenhower Expressway) and Ida B. Wells Drive/Wacker Drive. The bridge is located immediately to the east of a highway tunnel in the Old Post Office.

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Congress Parkway Bridge
Eisenhower Expressway, Chicago Near West Side

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N 41.875638888889 ° E -87.636666666667 °
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Congress Parkway Bridge (Clarence Wagner Memorial Bridge)

Eisenhower Expressway
60606 Chicago, Near West Side
Illinois, United States
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Old Post Office Chicago 2022
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WGN-TV (channel 9) is an independent television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, it is sister to the company's sole radio property, news/talk/sports station WGN (720 AM). WGN-TV's studios are located on West Bradley Place in Chicago's North Center community (as such, it is the only major commercial television station in Chicago which bases its main studio outside the city's downtown business district); its transmitter is located atop the Willis Tower in the Chicago Loop. Like concept progenitor WTBS in Atlanta, WGN-TV—which, alongside WGN radio and the now-defunct regional cable news channel Chicagoland Television (CLTV), was among the flagship broadcasting properties of Tribune Media (formerly known as the Tribune Company until August 2014) until the company's purchase by Nexstar was completed in September 2019—was a pioneering superstation; on November 8, 1978, it became the second U.S. television station to be made available via satellite transmission to cable and direct-broadcast satellite subscribers nationwide. The former "superstation" feed, WGN America (now NewsNation), was converted by Tribune into a conventional basic cable network in December 2014, at which time it removed all WGN-TV-produced local programs from its schedule and began to be carried on cable providers within the Chicago market (including Comcast Xfinity, AT&T U-verse, WOW! and RCN) alongside its existing local carriage on satellite providers DirecTV and Dish Network. (Since September 2020, the Bradley Place studios have housed production facilities for WGN America's nightly newscast, NewsNation.) Although the Chicago station is no longer widely available within the United States on conventional pay television providers outside of its home market, WGN-TV continues to be available as a de facto superstation on some providers, including many Canadian cable and satellite providers.