Vehicles 29 tons or heavier no longer allowed to use Chicago Street bridge in Elgin

Vehicles 29 tons or heavier no longer allowed to use Chicago Street bridge in Elgin

The weight limit for vehicles using the Chicago Street bridge in Elgin has been lowered again following the most recent inspection done by the Illinois Department of Transportation. What had once been a 40-ton limit for the span is now down to 29 tons as the city gears up to replace the 86-year-old bridge in 2027. But even at that limit, everything other heavy trucks — school buses, garbage trucks, fire engines, box trucks — will not have a prob…