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Managing Organization:
U.S. Coast Guard
Notes:
This tower was relocated to its present position at the end of a breakwater in 1919.
Height of Focal Plane: 82
Description of Tower: White, conical cast iron tower on concrete pier.
This light is operational
Other Buildings?
Intergral fog signal building and boathouse.
Earlier Towers?
1832: Tower at mouth of Chicago River.
Date Established: 1832
Date Present Tower Built: 1893
Tower Moved?
1919
Date Automated: 1979
Optics: 1893: Third order Fresnel lens (now at Cabrillo National Monument, CA)
Current Use: Active aid to navigation.
Open To Public? no
Directions:
This lighthouse is visible from locations along Chicago's Lake Michigan waterfront, and from some harbor cruises leaving Chicago.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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