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President Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the Outer Drive Bridge (now the Lake Shore Drive bridge) on Oct. 5, 1937, in a civic bash the likes of which Chicago had seldom seen. The bridge–seven years in the making, counting two major delays for want of funds–was hailed as a link-up between the city`s two major park systems, Lincoln on the north and Grant on the south, and as a source of relief for massive congestion on the Michigan Avenue Bridge. The bridge, built to bear the stress of a continuous stream of cars from either direction in its eight lanes, was regarded as an engineering marvel.
