Spanning the suburbs

According to a Federal Highway Authority database, updated in February, there are 29,903 bridges in Illinois. Cook and the collar counties are home to 4,692 bridges. In our six counties:

•725 bridges were rated "functionally obsolete."

•340 were rated "structurally deficient bridge."

•2,032 were rated "bridge not deficient."

•1,587 were not rated.

•8 were rated "not applicable."