Chicago's DuSable Bridge on N. Michigan Avenue Youth T-Shirt

On October 15, 2010, the Michigan Avenue bridge was renamed the DuSable Bridge in honor of area's first non-native resident - Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable. DuSable, the son of a French pirate and a Haitian slave, established the area's first trading post in 1779. His trading post was located near where the NE bridgehouse is today.

This bridge is considered by many to be the most spectacular of the 18 bridges. It has 4 ornate bridge tender houses. Each double-deck leaf is supported by 4 deck trusses. It is two bridges built side-by-side to allow one side to be open without blocking North Michigan Avenue off completely.

Ginger Wakem is a fourth generation Floridian whose work has been exhibited in galleries, shops, and offices. A muralist used her nature shots to decorate the walls of local businesses. Many of her photographs were shot from a boat in the backwaters of south Florida's inlets, mangroves, and Gulf of Mexico. They have won photography contests as well as sold to multiple buyers. Her photographs of blues guitarists taken at the Tampa Bay Blues Festival are very popular and have sold multiple times. In 2023, two of her photographs were chosen and shown at the Photo Artists' International Exhibition, in Watford, England. Ginger has finished many art books for private individuals. One of them took over twenty years to complete and was about a...