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Wacker Drive is a major street in Chicago, Illinois, United States, running along the downtown side of the Chicago River. The vast majority of it is double-decked; the upper level is intended for local traffic, and the lower level for through traffic and trucks servicing buildings on the road (and originally a dock). It is sometimes cited as a precursor to the modern freeway, though when built the idea was that pleasure vehicles would use the upper level. The upper level is normally known as Upper Wacker Drive and the lower level is Lower Wacker Drive. A short part has a third level, sometimes called Lower Lower Wacker Drive, Sub-Lower Wacker Drive, Wacker Drive, Service Level or Lowest Wackest. Near the eastern end of the road, other two and three level streets connect to Wacker Drive.
HistoryLogo for the 2001-2002 project Two aerial views in 1926In 1909, architects Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett drew up a plan to improve traffic flow in Chicago, and presented it to the Commercial Club of Chicago. The major part was a double-decked roadway along the river. Charles H. Wacker, chairman of the Chicago Plan Commission, pushed the idea. The original double-decker road was completed in 1926 at a cost of $8 million, and named after Wacker. The 1926 section stretched from Lake Street to Michigan Avenue, the latter of which was also rebuilt into a two-level road. An extension south to Congress Parkway and Harrison Street was built between 1948 and 1954 (after the Market Stub of the elevated Lake Street Line was removed[1]); extensions east were built in 1963 and 1975, with the latter taking it to Lake Shore Drive, and a new lower level starting at Stetson Avenue. At the time, Lake Shore Drive had an S-curve at the river, running where Wacker now does between Field Boulevard and current LSD. This S-curve was on a viaduct over the Illinois Central Railroad's rail yard, and was at the level of Upper Wacker; the middle and lower levels dead-ended at that point. The current alignment of LSD was finished in 1986, and in 1987 Middle Wacker was extended to meet the new alignment. The ramps to bring upper traffic down had already been built; upper has been dead-ended where it used to end at LSD. IntersectionsA side view, as seen from the Chicago River The south end of Wacker Drive, with the ramp from Congress Parkway at right, as seen in the famous car chase scene from The Blues Brothers Wacker Drive in downtown ChicagoThe following streets intersect Wacker Drive, from south to north and west to east. Most upper-level streets that end at Wacker Drive, with only right turns allowed, are not included.
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