The Dearborn Street Bridge over the Chicago River was built in 1962. It connects the Near North Side with "The Loop." Downtown buildings line the Chicago River The Chicago River is 156 miles (251 km) long, and flows through downtown Chicago. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... The Loop is what locals call the historical center of downtown Chicago. ...
Dearborn was held in the Omwake-Dearborn Chapel on campus at 11 a.m.
Dearborn and their three children, two of whom had completed their college degrees, and the youngest of whom was completing her senior year in college.
Dearborn held leadership positions in a number of civic and professional clubs and was active on the local, conference and national levels of the United Church of Christ.
The northernmost branches of the river are the West Fork, the East Fork (also known as the Skokie River) and the Middle Fork, which join into the North Branch at Morton Grove, Illinois.
In the 1770s, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable built his farm on the northern bank of the river near Wolf Point, the first non-Native American settlement of Chicago, and early in the next century, Fort Dearborn was built on the southern bank of the river.
The Chicago River has 45 movable bridges spanning it, down from a one-time high of 52 bridges.
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