Bridgeport is a city in Lawrence County, Illinois, United States.

It was named by a railroad official for the bridge that spanned Indian Creek, in the southern part of the city.

[3] Bridgeport lies southwest of Lawrenceville along Illinois State Route 250.

The Red Hill Junior High School Lady Salukis 2008 softball team went to the Illinois state championship and placed second.

That year the boys basketball team advanced to the State of Illinois IHSA basketball tournament finals to face a much larger Chicago team, John Marshall.

At the time, Illinois, like Indiana in the movie Hoosiers, held a single-class tournament where all schools competed for the same championship.

Unlike the Indiana team in Hoosiers, Bridgeport lost the championship game, finishing its season with a 33–2 record.