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The I-80 bridge connecting LeClaire to Rapids City has an uncertain future but the Illinois Department of Transportation wants your input on it.

Illinois House members passed a bill on April 5 urging Gov. Pritzker and the Department of Transportation to include a bison crossing in I-80 bridge plans.

It would cover about two-thirds of a mile.

It would cover about two-thirds of a mile.

The Illinois House Transportation Committee will hear a resolution Tuesday, March 22 asking IDOT to develop I-80 bridge plans that include the Bison Bridge project.

The state has begun the first phase of environmental studies near the current span. It's a process both Rapids City, IL, and LeClaire, IA, are watching closely.

Living Lands & Waters is taking on a mission to convert an old interstate bridge into a unique park for bison crossing over the Mississippi River.

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Plans to transform ageing Mississippi River bridge into world’s longest wildlife crossing A 1.1km bridge between Iowa and Illinois over the USA’s most famous river could be transformed into the world’s longest wildlife crossing under radical plans to prevent it from demolition. The 55-year-old Interstate-80 bridge currently serves 42,000 motorists every day. However it is due to be torn down and replaced due to its deteriorating condition. However, conservationist Chad Pregracke has table...

Where the buffalo roam: world’s longest wildlife bridge could cross the Mississippi Kari Paul © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Alan Rogers/AP Between Iowa and Illinois, spanning the only stretch of the Mississippi River that flows from east to west, sits an exhausted 55-year-old cement bridge. Each day 42,000 cars drive across the ageing structure, which is slated to be torn down and replaced. But when Chad Pregracke looks at the bridge, he has a different vision enti...