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Chester County bridge undergoing repairs after truck crash

Chester County bridge undergoing repairs after truck crash

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New bridge in Chester, Illinois, nears completion

New bridge in Chester, Illinois, nears completion

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Crews make progress on Don Welge Memorial Bridge in Chester, Illinois

Crews make progress on Don Welge Memorial Bridge in Chester, Illinois

Chester IL bridge, 8-18-2025. It was a interesting day at the bridge today. So much happening. Here's a video of the new curb that they are pouring concrete to make. It starts off at McBride MO at RMC Readymix LLC. Darren Mueller was cranking out the concrete today. There were two big pours and they took care of both. If you have ever wondered how they build the concrete curbs, watch this machine work. it's amazing! Enjoy! #chesterbridge #donwelgememorialbridge | Neal Adams

Chester IL bridge, 8-18-2025. It was a interesting day at the bridge today. So much happening. Here's a video of the new curb that they are pouring concrete to make. It starts off at McBride MO at RMC Readymix LLC. Darren Mueller was cranking out the concrete today. There were two big pours and they took care of both. If you have ever wondered how they build the concrete curbs, watch this machine work. it's amazing! Enjoy! #chesterbridge #donwelgememorialbridge | Neal Adams

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Chester IL bridge update, 8-27-2025. Here's a crazy video of the guys at pier 5 constructing the tower crane. You know you want this job! Thank God for men like these that are fearless and just get er done. Enjoy! #chesterbridge | Neal Adams

Chester IL bridge update, 8-27-2025. Here's a crazy video of the guys at pier 5 constructing the tower crane. You know you want this job! Thank God for men like these that are fearless and just get er done. Enjoy! #chesterbridge | Neal Adams

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Chester IL Mississippi river bridge, 11-1-2025. Here's what it looks like at piers 5-8 this morning. I'll take you on a flight from the Illinois side approach across pier 8, 7, and 6, on the way out to pier 5 where they are pouring concrete. Enjoy the flight! #chesterbridge #donwelgememorialbridge | Neal Adams

Chester IL Mississippi river bridge, 11-1-2025. Here's what it looks like at piers 5-8 this morning. I'll take you on a flight from the Illinois side approach across pier 8, 7, and 6, on the way out to pier 5 where they are pouring concrete. Enjoy the flight! #chesterbridge #donwelgememorialbridge | Neal Adams

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Chester IL bridge, 1-10-2026. This is what it looks like under pier 7 on the Illinois side. I havn't shown this area for a while. This is where the counterweight is, you can see the underneath side of it in this video. Enjoy! | Neal Adams

Chester IL bridge, 1-10-2026. This is what it looks like under pier 7 on the Illinois side. I havn't shown this area for a while. This is where the counterweight is, you can see the underneath side of it in this video. Enjoy! | Neal Adams

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Chester IL Mississippi river bridge, 10-30-2025. Here's what was happening today. Horse Island chute bridge is ready to pour. That will take place next Tuesday and will be 1000 yards. You can see the paver sitting on the deck. End with a fantastic shot down river. Enjoy! Like and share if you can! #chesterbridge #donwelgememorialbridge | Neal Adams

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Chester IL Mississippi river bridge, 11-8-2025. Finally! Some of you guys been waiting a long time for this video. I was able to go onto pier 6 so I recorded PJR and Associates and VSL pulling cables on the bridge deck. I'll show you the wench at the top that pulls the cables up. The cable that they use is gravity fed back down to hook to the next cable. Then they repeat it, a very simple process. Enjoy this, it was worth the wait! #chesterbridge #donwelgememorialbridge | Neal Adams

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Chester IL Bridge, 1-24-2026. Here's what it looks like at the Chester bridge today. It's very cold and snowy. This is just a quick look at things. Cool time lapse of a boat going upstream in the middle of the video. Enjoy! #chesterbridge | Neal Adams

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Chester IL bridge, 11-15-2025 Pier 5 | Neal Adams

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Chester IL Bridge, 10-9-2025. I'm going to show you some great skills today. The MLC300 Maxer crane is being ran with precision, Josh is setting another piece of the super structure in place on pier 6. Ames Construction has the best crane operators in the area! It's so fun to watch them operate. Enjoy! #chesterbridge #donwelgememorialbridge | Neal Adams

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Chester IL bridge, 10-14-2024. Another stellar job by PJR & Associates, a local company from Ava IL. Today's video shows them setting panels in the bridge deck on pier 6. Pretty awesome crane work by Josh too! Hope you enjoy! #chesterbridge #donwelgememorialbridge | Neal Adams

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Chester IL bridge, 10-1-2025. Here's a great view of what it's like to ride up in the super cage. You're going to like this one for sure. I've watched this about 25 times already....enjoy! #chesterbridge #donwelgememorialbridge | Neal Adams

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Chester IL bridge, 10-16-2025. Join me as I fly over and show you what's happening this morning at the Chester IL bridge job site. I'll take you from Horse Island chute over to pier 6. Enjoy! #chesterbridge #donwelgememorialbridge | Neal Adams

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Chester IL bridge, 10-8-2025. Here's a fly over starting from the Missouri side. It's quiet this morning, I got here around 6:45am. This flight is in real time and takes about 3 minutes to fly from the gas stations to the Illinois side visitors center. Bonus shot at 400' at the end of the video. Enjoy! #chesterbridge #donwelgememorialbridge | Neal Adams

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Chester IL bridge, 10-2-2025. Always trying to show something different. Today I went out on the river and followed Phillip Francis around in the Ruby Belle. Such a cool video of Phil and Kevin moving the mlc300 Max crane barge out to pier 5. This takes skill to do this folks, there are so many obstacles and so many things that could go wrong here. You will get to hear Kevin Ritchey guide Phil in which is pretty cool. Stay tuned in for a spectacular shot south from 400' at the end. Enjoy! #chest

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Chester IL bridge, 1-1-2026. Here's a flyover from 275' at about 9am on 12-31-2025. You can really see how things are coming together and how close the piers are getting to being connected. You can't see this view anywhere else, it's definitely birds eye! Enjoy! #chesterbridge. | Neal Adams

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Chester IL bridge - 9-11-2025. Take a ride with the Ames Construction boat pilot Phillip Francis as he takes concrete across the river to pier 5. You will see how they get it up there, and a view from the top while they are pouring. Live action from this morning! Enjoy! #chesterbridge #donwelgememorialbridge | Neal Adams

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Chester IL Bridge, 1-16-2026. Here's an unedited fly over that takes 3 minutes. Check out what is happening at the bridge today. It's getting closer to connecting! #chesterbridge | Neal Adams

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Chester IL bridge, 9-24-2025. Here's some video of John K Brown setting the concrete girders on Horse Island chute on the Missouri side. This lift was a bit different, he picked it up and they swung it around 180° and then John set it in place. I missed the very first part when they picked it off the truck, I was changing batteries. This video was filmed on 9-18-2025. Hopefully tomorrow it won't be raining all day and I can get down to do an update. Enjoy! #chesterbridge #donwelgememorialbridge

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Chester IL bridge, 12-2-2025. Here's a quick fly over from the Missouri side to the Illinois side. It was about 3:30 and it's pretty cold at 28°. There were some people working at pier 6 when I got there. The pieces came to hook the Illinois side to pier 6 today, I really hope I can catch that. Enjoy! #chesterbridge | Neal Adams

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MV Marie LeBoeuf southbound going through the new Chester IL Bridge construction site at 7:30 am on January 6, 2026. This vessel has a massive 3600 horsepower and was built in 2025. Enjoy! LeBeouf Bros Towing, LLC | Neal Adams

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Chester IL bridge, 11-25-2025. Many of you have been asking for this. My old drone would not fly under the bridge because it would loose the satellites. My new drone will. I'm going to show you underneath the old bridge and it really doesn't look too bad for being 84 years old. I think we're going to make it until the new bridge is finished! Keep in mind that the plywood you see is from patching the bridge on the upside and they just leave it there when finished. Enjoy! #chesterbridge #donwelgem

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Chester IL bridge mile marker 109.5, date of 2-17-2026. MV Bobby Golding from the Golding Barge Line fleet, port of Vicksburg MS, going under the new bridge construction headed northbound. Enjoy! #chesterbridge | Neal Adams

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Chester IL bridge, 8-21-2025. The tower crane is going up at pier 5. Here's two photos from the webcam and two more close ups from Cliff Buehler . Thanks Cliff! | Neal Adams

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Chester IL bridge, 12-13-2025. Here's a cool video of the crew putting one of the last pieces in between piers 6 and 7 to connect the Illinois side bank to the bridge. I believe this is the counterweight like the one on the other end of the bridge between piers 3 and 4. Dave Duke told us at the update Thursday that there is about 6 million pounds of steel in this bridge...and about 33,000 yards of concrete. That's a lot! They on target for a grand opening ceremony on July 4th, 2026. Enjoy the vi

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Chester IL bridge, 1-28-2026. This is what it looked like this morning at pier 6 on the Illinois side. The workers were headed out onto the pier with snow shovels. Looks like it will be a cold day, it's definitely a cold start for sure. Enjoy! #chesterbridge | Neal Adams

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Environmental study being conducted on the Chester, IL Bridge

Chester IL bridge, 1-12-2026. I was able to get a good look at the guys from PJR & Associates pulling cables on the new super structure on pier 5. When they get a few cables on, they will put the prefabbed concrete slabs in next. I'll show you the wenches that pull the cables up to the cable stays that are built into the pylons. Someday I will get up there to the top to show you whats in there. For now, Enjoy! #chesterbridge #donwelgememorialbridge | Neal Adams

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