Multilevel streets in Chicago

360 North Michigan, Mather Tower and 35 East Wacker stand on East Wacker Drive just west of Michigan Avenue and the Michigan Avenue Bridge.

Downtown Chicago, Illinois, has some double-decked and a few triple-decked streets immediately north and south of the Main Branch and immediately east of the South Branch of the Chicago River. The most famous and longest of these is Wacker Drive, which replaced the South Water Street Market upon its 1926 completion.[1] The resulting bi-level street has an upper-level riverfront boulevard, a lower-level roadway for commercial and through traffic, and a recreational walkway at water level.[2]

  1. ^ "Wacker Drive, c.1930". The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago. Chicago Historical Society. 2005. Retrieved August 2, 2007.
  2. ^ "Wacker Drive, 2004". The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago. Chicago Historical Society. 2005. Retrieved August 2, 2007.