Editing Multilevel streets in Chicago (section)

{{short description|Tiered streets}}
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[[File:20070530 360 North Michigan and 35 East Wacker.JPG|thumb|[[360 North Michigan]], [[Mather Tower]] and [[35 East Wacker]] stand on East Wacker Drive just west of [[Michigan Avenue (Chicago)|Michigan Avenue]] and the [[Michigan Avenue Bridge]].]]
Downtown [[Chicago|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.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/3864.html|title=Wacker Drive, c.1930|access-date=August 2, 2007|date=2005|publisher=Chicago Historical Society|encyclopedia=The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago}}</ref>  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.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/10918.html|title=Wacker Drive, 2004|access-date=August 2, 2007|date=2005|publisher=Chicago Historical Society|encyclopedia=The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago}}</ref>