Multilevel streets in Chicago

Multilevel streets in Chicago are two, sometimes three superimposed streets in downtown Chicago, which already exist in some cases for over 80 years. Official plans for the road system existed since the early 1910s and were eventually implemented by Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett. Supporters were also recreational cyclists and farmers who wanted to bring their products to the market.

The longest and probably most famous stretch of road is of Wacker Drive, which was named after the German -American philanthropist Charles Henry Wacker (1856-1929), a three and a half kilometer multi-lane road that runs along the Chicago River. The Wacker Drive, which had been built in 1926, initially with about one kilometer of 8 million U.S. dollars, is considered as the basic building block of the multi-level system. 1948-1954 a one mile long extension to the south was built in 1963 and then again in 1975 an extension west to Lake Michigan.