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, including a ramp between the upper and lower (middle) levels
Wacker Drive is a major street in
Chicago, Illinois, United States, running along the south side of the main branch and the east side of the south branch of the Chicago River. The street is a Multilevel streets in Chicago that runs from 340 north at 400 east to 200 north at 340 west and along 360 west from 188 north to 424 south in the Streets and highways of Chicago in the Loop, Chicago Community areas of Chicago of Chicago in
Cook County, Illinois,
Illinois, United States.Hayner, Don and Tom McNamee,
Streetwise Chicago, "Wacker Drive", p. 129., Loyola University Press, 1988, ISBN 0-8294-0597-6 The vast majority of it is
double-decker; the upper level intended for local traffic, and the lower level for through-traffic and trucks servicing buildings on the road (and originally a
Dock (maritime)). 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. It is one of a few streets in the city that has addresses on all four cardinal directions.
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,
Lowest Wackest or
Bottom Wacker. Near the eastern end of the road, Double-decker streets in Chicago connect to Wacker Drive.
History
In 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. Relieving the congestion at Wacker Drive and Rush Street (Chicago) where 50% of the city's north-south traffic crossed the
Chicago River was a major part of the plan.
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 (Chicago) to
Michigan Avenue (Chicago), the latter of which was also rebuilt into a two-level road.
An extension south to
Congress Parkway (Chicago) and
Harrison Street (Chicago) was built between 1948 and
1954, replacing Market Street (after the
Market Stub of the elevated
Lake Street Line was removed); 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 (Chicago). At the time, Lake Shore Drive had an
reverse curve at the river, running where Wacker now does between
Field Boulevard (Chicago) and current Lake Shore Drive. 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 Lake Shore Drive 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 Lake Shore Drive.
Wacker is the only street to cross both
State Street (Chicago) (the east-west center line) and
Madison Avenue (the north-south center line).
Popular culture
- Wacker Drive had a "cameo" credit in the 1980 film, The Blues Brothers (film). The climactic high-speed chase scene occurs along various downtown streets (filmed on Sundays with the downtown cordoned off). When the brothers take the Bluesmobile down to the express level, Elwood mentions the street by name: "Well, this is definitely Lower Wacker Drive. If my estimations are correct, we should be very close to the Honorable Richard J. Daley Richard J. Daley Center." Jake: "That's where they've got that Chicago Picasso." Elwood: "Yep."
- Wacker Drive was also featured in the Batmobile chase scene in the movie Batman Begins.
- In the movie Call Northside 777, scenes are set in a tower on Wacker Drive looking toward the Merchandise Mart.
Intersections
The 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.
See also
Notes
External links
- Official City of Chicago Loop Community Map
- Wacker Drive Reconstruction Website (Internet Archive)
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marker_image = |
alternate_name = |
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cities = [Chicago|
established = |
system = |
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, including a ramp between the upper and lower (middle) levels
Wacker Drive is a major street in
Chicago,
Illinois, United States, running along the south side of the main branch and the east side of the south branch of the
Chicago River. The street is a Multilevel streets in Chicago that runs from 340 north at 400 east to 200 north at 340 west and along 360 west from 188 north to 424 south in the
Streets and highways of Chicago in the
Loop, Chicago Community areas of Chicago of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, Illinois,
United States.Hayner, Don and Tom McNamee,
Streetwise Chicago, "Wacker Drive", p. 129., Loyola University Press, 1988, ISBN 0-8294-0597-6 The vast majority of it is double-decker; the upper level intended for local traffic, and the lower level for through-traffic and trucks servicing buildings on the road (and originally a Dock (maritime)). 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. It is one of a few streets in the city that has addresses on all four cardinal directions.
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,
Lowest Wackest or
Bottom Wacker. Near the eastern end of the road, Double-decker streets in Chicago connect to Wacker Drive.
History
In 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. Relieving the congestion at Wacker Drive and Rush Street (Chicago) where 50% of the city's north-south traffic crossed the
Chicago River was a major part of the plan.
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 (Chicago) to
Michigan Avenue (Chicago), the latter of which was also rebuilt into a two-level road.
An extension south to
Congress Parkway (Chicago) and Harrison Street (Chicago) was built between
1948 and 1954, replacing Market Street (after the
Market Stub of the elevated Lake Street Line was removed); 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 (Chicago). At the time, Lake Shore Drive had an reverse curve at the river, running where Wacker now does between Field Boulevard (Chicago) and current Lake Shore Drive. 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 Lake Shore Drive 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 Lake Shore Drive.
Wacker is the only street to cross both
State Street (Chicago) (the east-west center line) and
Madison Avenue (the north-south center line).
Popular culture
- Wacker Drive had a "cameo" credit in the 1980 film, The Blues Brothers (film). The climactic high-speed chase scene occurs along various downtown streets (filmed on Sundays with the downtown cordoned off). When the brothers take the Bluesmobile down to the express level, Elwood mentions the street by name: "Well, this is definitely Lower Wacker Drive. If my estimations are correct, we should be very close to the Honorable Richard J. Daley Richard J. Daley Center." Jake: "That's where they've got that Chicago Picasso." Elwood: "Yep."
- Wacker Drive was also featured in the Batmobile chase scene in the movie Batman Begins.
- In the movie Call Northside 777, scenes are set in a tower on Wacker Drive looking toward the Merchandise Mart.
Intersections
The 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.
See also
Notes
External links
- Official City of Chicago Loop Community Map
- Wacker Drive Reconstruction Website (Internet Archive)
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Wacker Drive, Chicago, beneath Jewelers' Building (1926). Courtesy of R. Stephen Sennott.
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