The Ongoing Saga of the Long Grove Bridge - It's a Hit!

Been awhile since I posted a blog here. Trying to think of a good topic. First of all... wow! You guys are awesome! At time of posting 78 friends here. Might surpass my YouTube channel before long lol. Speaking of YouTube, you guys got some awesome YouTube channels. Working to follow as my of my "friends" on their various other socials over on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. So send me a friend request, follow me on my other socials if you like. Either way I'm happy to support you and help you grow, and together we build an awesome community.

Back to Long Grove. Many of my earliest videos focused on documenting historic downtown Long Grove, Illinois. Mostly cause I lived so close. It has become one of the biggest series on my channel, and full of drama. One of the biggest highlights and historical pieces of Long Grove is a one lane wooden bridge. Some of my earliest videos document the town saving money to preserve the bridge.

In a cruel twist of fate, on June 27, 2018, a 30 year old truck driver unlawfully drove a box truck through the historic Long Grove, Illinois bridge, just weeks after the bridge's addition to the National Register of Historic Places. For the next two years a temporary structure stood in place until a new modern, but still single lane wooden bridge opened in 2020.

So happy ending? Well, mere days after the 2020 opening, the bridge was struck again, this time by a school bus. And has been struck a whopping 44 additional times since as of this posting! Absolutely crazy, maybe cursed. While significant damage has been obtained and repaired on the outside, the structure still stands. Thanks mostly to steel beams in place to take the force of the vehicles instead of the wood. I believe the last accident was done by an Amazon truck lol.

It's almost a joke or meme to the local community at this point as soon as another accident crosses the wires. Since the 2020 re-opening numerous additional warning signs have been put in place including directions for truck detours. But still, people can't read, don't care, or don't know the height of their trucks. What baffles me is how people understood this before 2018 and the 100 years or whatever the bridge stood, but not now.

I have not been to Long Grove since 2021. I'm overdue to go back. And I will this year. Numerous things that I want to vlog in the area. So please subscribe. Stay tuned. And for now, please enjoy my series of Long Grove, Illinois videos. :-)

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