I worked in Chicago for five years. One time I had a downtown meeting with several colleagues. It was the middle of winter and frigid cold outside, esp. close to the lake. One of my colleagues who had lived in Chicago for many years showed us how we could use underground tunnels to go from building to building for several blocks without having to deal with the weather.
@philmoe5392
Жыл бұрын
Yes, it’s called the Pedway, very useful when needed.
@dsxa918
Жыл бұрын
I remember when that name was introduced, it was not 'pedestrian' but another 'ped-word' and the rule was if you found them you wither had to steal their clothes and come out carrying them or put on clothes you buy out of a vending machine, they had down there, back in the day.
@travcurt
Жыл бұрын
I grew up around Minneapolis, but visited often. Minneapolis / St Paul also have an underground network of tunnels. It was initially built for UofM students to get to different buildings during the winter, but the cities decided to expand on it. They are amazing. I never knew Chicago had them as well, very cool!
@texanfournow
Жыл бұрын
@@travcurt Good to know in case I ever find myself in MSP!
@memeo1234567890
Жыл бұрын
Lmfao. You called them tunnels
@spddiesel
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for calling it the Sears Tower and not that Willis abomination...
@montana_patriot
Жыл бұрын
I refuse to acknowledge that building as the Willis Tower. Sears tower forever.
@diane4549
Жыл бұрын
We used to have some supermarkets in Fresno California called Mayfair. They went out of business years ago, but we still have an area, called the Mayfair District, where one of those stores once used to be. My ex-boyfriend's brother was a manager at that supermarket.
@mro4ts457
Жыл бұрын
It will always be the Searis Tower. Forever. (That’s how most all Chicagoins pronounce it, quickly and with an almost silent i. ‘The Searis Tower’ )
@mrmoshpotato
Жыл бұрын
Sears Tower and Comiskey Park!
@johnfritz1164
Жыл бұрын
And Marshall Field"s
@jeffjay9350
Жыл бұрын
In addition to lower Wacker Dr, there are a bunch of other lower drives: Michigan, Water, Columbus etc. All interconnected.
@danmurphy9173
Жыл бұрын
Yes and they can be particularly useful if you remember which ones will take you back up to “ground level”, and which ones will take you down underneath.
@justdrive5327
Жыл бұрын
Getting from lower Michigan Avenue to Michigan Avenue is a pain. Google always sends you underground then it stops working down there lol
@MN12warbird
Жыл бұрын
When a major celebrity say shows up to nbc studios, the limo has the option to go use the lower portion levels of the lower wacker tunnel system to unload in the basement level away from the prying eyes of street level. It is said Michael Jordan would pull up to the studios for his interviews in his ferrari testarossa same one like dr dre was driving in la. We had mj in Chicago, sometimes hed pull up in front of his restaurant in the ferrari 😊
@CountJinsulaOfficial
Жыл бұрын
Fun fact: if you get your car towed in Chicago, it will be stored in the third level of Wacker. Meaning, your car is gone forever.
@chi_guy
Жыл бұрын
Which before you thought was never never land… now you can just say it’s by the tiki hut on the river.
@theresejudith6197
Жыл бұрын
Happened to us. Walked around for hours trying to find a mysterious lot that was on the gps but nowhere to be seen. Finally realized we were right above it the whole time -_-
@scoot4348
Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@CirceandLillith
Жыл бұрын
Remember the movie adventures in babysitting 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💪 good ol days
@yodude8932
Жыл бұрын
True but false at the same time. Get your car towed on the Southside it goes to Doty road impound. I know. My car was towed
@TheydyGodiva
Жыл бұрын
Lower Wacker is a parallel dimension where GPS doesn't work. It swallows you up and spits you out somewhere completely different and nowhere near where you were intending to go. Also I found Lower Lower Wacker only once in my life-by accident- and I was creeped the hell out.
@israeldelarosa5461
Жыл бұрын
Lower Wacker is the closest thing we have to Wormholes on earth. Space Warps in order to get you to far away regions faster than you normally would be able to.
@rafs6052
Жыл бұрын
A wormhole into infinite other dimensions, poor Google maps has no idea wtf is happening down there
@iancontreras7688
11 ай бұрын
The Uber killer lol
@TheydyGodiva
11 ай бұрын
@iancontreras7688 no fr tho. You've no idea how many times I try to tell my uber drivers to avoid lower wacker.
@CreatingExcellence
4 ай бұрын
Used to drive old lower whacker (before they made it nice and kicked out the homeless) like a racetrack at 3am ba I in high school. I liked it better back in the day before GPS. You are correct GPS doesn’t work down there but it does guide people to use it. Way more traffic now than back in the day.
@cactusfondler9989
Жыл бұрын
As a now retired bike messenger in Chicago I can literally guide anyone through every inch of Lower and Sub Wacker. We all have to use it to reach the docks that would eventually be our destinations. What I really wanna mention is how a lot of us always joked that Lower Wacker is essentially the slums from the highly acclaimed video game Final Fantasy VII. All that aside, love your videos! If you want better access to Chicago's true underground; ask a messenger. We know everything downtown and in the neighborhoods we work in!
@MrCricri123456
Жыл бұрын
I know u buddy
@cactusfondler9989
Жыл бұрын
@@MrCricri123456 shhhhh you see nobody 🤫
@ClotEastwood
Жыл бұрын
What Bike did you use . . . Motor bike Cycle
@cactusfondler9989
Жыл бұрын
@@ClotEastwood track bike
@chouseification
Жыл бұрын
I never found any Materia while down there back in the day... :D
@DLL8252
10 ай бұрын
Despite the high rent, rising food prices, violence and poverty, I've been a Chicagoan for 41yrs, having visited places such as Mississippi, Wisconsin, Philadelphia, and Louisiana, I always come back home to Illinois and I love My city, I really do 🫡🫡🫡❤ the food, architecture, monuments, history, landscapes, sports teams, music, AND people, there's no place like SWEET HOME CHICAGO !
@bicivelo
7 ай бұрын
In from Boston but moved up St Louis. I would give my left arm to live near chicago!
@catholiccrusader5328
4 ай бұрын
@@bicivelo we'll be glad to have you live with us.
@bicivelo
4 ай бұрын
@@catholiccrusader5328 😂😂
@tonyorozco6462
3 ай бұрын
You just listed the main reasons NOT to live in that dumpster of a city lmao
@gobbletegook
Жыл бұрын
Years ago, and when I used to get to Chicago while visiting from WISCONSIN, I discovered Lower MICHIGAN avenue! Few people realize that Michigan Avenue stores are actually on the 2nd floor of many of the buildings, because they built it up to allow for deliveries, utilities, and access that would normally block a busy street. Whoever thought of it was really thinking ahead.
@kathyb2941
Жыл бұрын
As someone else said: "OH-gil-vee." Named after Richard Ogilvie, a former governor of Illinois.
@stoyanoffice4961
Жыл бұрын
not a single person that drives down here has "forgotten" about these streets, it's just newbs or youtubers that seem to think so. There's also lower Michicigan, Columbus, Kinzie, Wells, Northwater and a lower pedestrian street going a couple miles under the Loop that has a mall and a DMV an connects to the Millenium Park {Bean} and its train station to name a few. if you go to the north side of the river, you can see the original street entrance of the oldest buildings. They used to cal lower Wacker "Emerald City" because all the city street lights down there were nearly the same green as a traffic light, thousands of them.
@chrisgustafson9342
5 ай бұрын
I remember those green lights!
@MrSchmo
Жыл бұрын
Fun Fact. I created the Chicago Bridge and Viaduct Clearance project about 15 years ago. I measured every clearance in Chicago including all of lower, and lower lower, Wacker Dr. plus every other bridge (over roadways). Was little dangerous at times but a great experience. If youre a trucker that drives in Chicago you have used my Clearance and routing chart.
@juliemanarin4127
11 ай бұрын
Cool! I live in Hegewisch! I've used lower Wacker drive a few times!
@SeekingGreetings
11 ай бұрын
Well, Thank you, kind Sir.
@patrickcutrera3958
11 ай бұрын
Thanks for creating your Bridge clearance Warning GPS!I’ve driven Trucks in different dicey areas around the city . How about the Kennedy bridge where it intersects with North Avenue ?! That bridge is long overdue for a bridge Overhaul! I delivered lumber to the Home Depot there and tried to avoid that bridge like the plague ! I’d get off early & the Division st exit and run North on Elston to North 🚛💥🫣
@imperialmotoring3789
11 ай бұрын
@@patrickcutrera3958 get off at Armitage or Division.
@definitionofbeauty6861
10 ай бұрын
Some of your bridge clearance calculations seem a bit scary on the approach
@stephi8949
Жыл бұрын
Learning to navigate lower Wacker was seriously game changer in terms of getting through the loop easier!
@mysteriouse5891
Жыл бұрын
"This is definitely Lower Wacker Drive! If my estimations are correct, we should be very close to the Honorable Richard J. Daley Plaza! "
@bearworldwide101
Жыл бұрын
When I saw that movie I'm like these guys missed 3 ramps to go to RJD Plaza just to get chased around Chicago for 15 mins more 😂. The first ramp was the more direct but they jumped on top of the cop car so I give them that one.
@wills2140
Жыл бұрын
The Blues Brothers movie scenes on Lower Wacker were brought back into my memory by comments like yours. Thank you. Do not forget The Billy Goat Tavern that also inspired John Belushi on SNL. (:
@mar4kl
Жыл бұрын
@@wills2140 & Jose Herrera: Yeah, but try driving like Jake and Elwood did down there at your peril!
@brianpack5479
Жыл бұрын
That's where they got that Picasso.
@bearworldwide101
Жыл бұрын
@@mar4kl with the same car lol
@cumberlandgapjimbow7897
Жыл бұрын
I grew up in Chicago from 1958 to 1994 when I retired. I drove a truck in the city and used lower Wacker Dr many times. I live in northeast TN. now and love my view of the mountains but really miss the pizza and Italian beef sandwiches.
@PeterTea
Жыл бұрын
FYI Lou Malnati’s and Portillos both ship.
@bhaveshpatel9626
11 ай бұрын
What city in TN? I used to live in Johnson City. I get all the Chicago style pizza, hot dogs, and Italian beef I want, but I miss those mountains
@jonsnow8991
Жыл бұрын
The wild "garlic" is actually a plant called the Ramp. It grows in mid spring-ish time and can be found if you look for the two big green leaves that stick out of the ground. The closest they grow to the city is in the forest preserves in the suburbs. Although they are hard to find in large quantities and most people don't like to share the locations they do.
@CathodeZodiac
Жыл бұрын
There are a few spots in the city, though those spots are guarded even more closely!
@TomNovak2113
Жыл бұрын
My friend just foraged some from the Indiana Dunes. And I tried some. And it indeed was a solid alternative to garlic/green onion tastes! I was so confused when he first said he was bringing over "ramps" lol
@conormccaffery5821
10 ай бұрын
I’ve learned how to find it. It’s actually pretty easy as it’s usually the first green you can see on the forest floors in the spring. Cut off the leaves, don’t dig it up. I’ve read the natives called it “shikakwa”
@reallyjustrandom1230
11 ай бұрын
I visited Chicago a couple of weeks ago and drove around lower Wacker drive, it was very cool. I knew from various movies such as the fugitive that they had roads a lower level and always wanted to drive on them.
@mmmbbq
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I learned of lower lower Wacker when a Vespa I was riding got towed down there back in '99 I think it was. My friend and I tried to find it, but he had to get to work and we ran out of time. I got a cab and the driver told me there's no way we would have found it on my own. As he drove me down there, I couldn't believe the sharp 180 degree turns this dude had to make. Once I finally made it down there and found the place, things only got worse. Thanks Chicago!
@bearworldwide101
Жыл бұрын
Supposedly in the 50s Wacker Drive was planned to be a part of the Cook County Expressway system which was the precursor if the 1956 Eisenhower Interstate Highway Act. Which is why the road ends abruptly on Harrison. Old plan maps had the Chinatown Feeder then called the Franklin St. Expressway to continue north to Harrison and be one with Wacker Dr. And have a spur north to the Ohio Street Feeder which that too was planned to connect to LSD.
@maas1208
Жыл бұрын
Honestly, this third level could be turned into a Transitway for BRT and/or LRT.
@catya3668
Жыл бұрын
I’m a Michigan suburbanite who’s been living in Streeterville for the last 4 months on a work assignment. Because driving in Chicago can be challenging, I’ve been calling Wacker Drive & all it’s names “whacked”. Now I have a better appreciation for it’s purpose. Thank You. Subscribed!
@PushingThroughThePain
Жыл бұрын
I grew up in western Illinois, along the Mississippi River, so trips to Chicago were rare as it was about a 3 hour drive to get there. But I always found the tunnel streets fascinating! I wanted to explore them so badly, but I've still only ever seen photos and videos. Thank you for sharing this fascinating but of history!
@MN12warbird
Жыл бұрын
Between 2000-2013 i probably took 1000s of night trips through those tunnels. Raced dozens if not hundreds of ppl. And this was all before paul walker died. The year he did the following months were absolutely crazy
@SuperCarCar10
Жыл бұрын
I had the misfortune of hands-on learning these 3 levels on my own last night as I was delivering an order on ubereats and Michigan avenue was closed off cause of the city’s winter parade. Thing is, I’ve lived in Chicago for most of my life and I actively try to avoid the lower levels (never even knew about the sub level til last night) cause the GPS always bugs out 🙃 lol Anyways, I just found the timing of this video being uploaded very funny, but also the video itself was very interesting:)
@geminienteratyourownrisk4151
Жыл бұрын
Lol, I worked at northwestern and lived in the burbs, got tangled up under there a few times, and was glad when I saw sun light….and the folks use to it down there do not play…..better keep up or get out the way. Whew!🤣
@justdrive5327
Жыл бұрын
Same thing happened to me also Uber Eats except 1 month before you. Google kept sending underground then spun in circles when i got down there
@justdrive5327
Жыл бұрын
The cool thing is you could of gone to lower Michigan Avenue and entered the building from the lower level or went up the stairs to the upper level to do your delivery. So you can still access streets regardless if they close them bcs of the lower levels
@ZuperZocker
Жыл бұрын
That f-ing winter parade. My wife always had a conference at a hotel off Michigan, and it was such a pain to pick her up
@WOKEchair
Жыл бұрын
I was gonna put something but I forgot what
@christianmichael4263
11 ай бұрын
Chicago is freakin' beautiful especially downtown. I was there for the first time ever.
@kevinsobiski5212
Жыл бұрын
Finding a particular parking garage in that part of downtown is really tough. You lose the GPS signal, so if you get lost, you are screwed.
@justimagine2403
Жыл бұрын
333 Wacker - the curved green glass building... viewable from the Merchandise Mart. Stunning.
@dbeaus
Жыл бұрын
The smell was onions, not garlic.
@KurtClark
Жыл бұрын
This project is so very Chicago! It's a city of solutions, like the river that is pushed to flow backwards for flood control. My parents lived in the north end of the city for several years, and my visits to them always included visits to downtown where I got easily overwhelmed. I had never heard of Lower Lower Wacker before this. Thanks for sharing!
@danmurphy9173
Жыл бұрын
The river flowing backwards was done so they could dump sewage into it - they’re still working on flood control but several phases are online - look up the “deep tunnel” project. eventually Chicago will stop having to dump raw sewage into the lake every time they get heavy rains. But until this point it’s still cheaper for them to simply pay EPA fines to do that. I believe those fines are actually in the city budget. There’s an entire flag system at the beaches that tell you when the bacteria level is “safe” for swimmers,but the problem is is that the lab results from those tests are usually 24 hours old. So a red flag means you should not have been swimming yesterday. It all makes perfect sense, right?
@ksull72487
Жыл бұрын
Don't forget our drinking water comes from the lake and like 90% of the worlds purified water hahahaha. Chicago water intake is pretty far out there tho. It's treated or purified too I wouldn't be too worried but like you said makes sense right.
@arc4705
Жыл бұрын
10:30 Haha do you mean Ogilvie Transportation Center?? It’s said OH-gull-vee 🤣 and the caption says “augieville” which doesn’t exist. Great video tho, I’ve passed up and down Wacker drive a billion times and never knew the history of it! So cool to learn about my own city
@lcpltylerhanyzewski
Жыл бұрын
Glad I'm not the only one to notice
@aaronaardvark1592
Жыл бұрын
He's from the US, so you have to bear in mind that English isn't his first language.
@wkienz
Жыл бұрын
Governor Richard Ogilvie would be spinning in his grave if he heard the transportation center named in his memory called Auggie-ville. I still call the building the Chicago & North Western train station.
@babaluigi
Жыл бұрын
Oggy Ville!
@Backroad_Junkie
Жыл бұрын
Hey! Augie might be the last governor of Illinois that didn't receive a prison sentence! Lol...
@psdaengr911
Жыл бұрын
It's unfortunate that this wasn't reviewed by somebody who lives in Chicago. That the Ogilvie Transportation Center was called Augieville is just the most glaring for the many many mistakes in this piece.
@RobReder
Жыл бұрын
I had to rewind and go back when I heard it. Surely it didn't get that butchered... Oh yeah, Augieville 🤣
@williamcarothers4976
Жыл бұрын
Yeah he smoked that one lol
@mrtrippe7855
Жыл бұрын
That woke me up too. Reading the comments I thought I was the only one to hear it. So glad I wasn't.
@BardovBacchus
Жыл бұрын
Same, also Kinzie sounded weird to my ear
@janicehammersmith4728
Жыл бұрын
...like fingernails on a chalkboard...
@cokesquirrel
Жыл бұрын
I lived in Chicago for about 25 years , Wacker is so confusing. It has a north south east west upper and lower.
@berryconway4296
Жыл бұрын
Wow this brings back memories. I worked for many years at Gunthorp-Warren Printing at 123 N. Wacker, right at the corner or Randolph and Wacker. GW's shipping dock was the on the first lower level. I still smoked then and watched the Sears Tower being erected while on smoke breaks on the receiving dock which was on the south side of our building. I wouldn't say I was old but there was still an elevator operator for the passenger elevator when I started there. And don't for get that song "Wack Wacker Wacker Drive" by the Grim Brothers, you can listen to it hear on KZitem. Thanks.
@TeflonBarbie
4 ай бұрын
cool beans :-)
@nada4328
Жыл бұрын
I use lower Wacker drive very often. I used it today as well coming back form the city. Even during rush hour the traffic on lower Wacker is minimal and like you said it's confusing for some people or intimidating but for me I just know that i usually enter on lower lake shore drive. And exit on Ida B Wells drive turning into 290 with options for I-90 as well.
@MrIFUX
Жыл бұрын
it ain't forgotten. It's scary down there and not talking civilians. I'm talking about the mini autobahn.
@Backroad_Junkie
Жыл бұрын
Not known? Ever see The Blues Brothers? Probably the most famous (maybe the only?) movie to be featured on Lower Wacker. It's a great connector between Lake Shore Drive and the Eisenhower Expressway. Used to take it all the time...
@andrewrobinson5837
Жыл бұрын
As soon as the intro played I immediately thought of the movie too!
@wills2140
Жыл бұрын
Comments like yours helped remind me of those scenes in 'The Blues Btothes', thank you. (:
@wills2140
Жыл бұрын
p. s. The video mentions it was featured in 'The Dark Knight'. I think it was also shown in a couple of crime thrillers in the 1970's / 1980's and maybe 'Adventures In Babysitting' iirc.
@Backroad_Junkie
Жыл бұрын
@@wills2140 Could be, I haven't kept up with Lower Wacker movies, lol. (Though I do recall Dark Knight really screwed things up down there. Lower Wacker is a major artery during rush hour, and if anything stops it up, it's a major problem.) But the Blues Brothers was the first movie filmed in Chicago after old man Daley died, and for Elwood to specifically point out they were on Lower Wacker was something new in my life, lol. John Landis really did Chicago right...
@ScamLikely9327
Жыл бұрын
If you ever feel the desire to do the history of the once boom towns surrounding Chicago like Dekalb or Kankakee I’d be endlessly interested.
@kevintheilen9643
Жыл бұрын
He would, but can't figure out how to say them...
@Dwit2EEs
Жыл бұрын
YES!!...THE SEARS TOWER!! We don't even know what or whom "Willis" is or what he was talking about! I love navigating through LW and LLW. Especially with out or of towners. They always tense up and start looking around like they seen a UFO
@ITSHISTORY
Жыл бұрын
I’m going to do a dedicated Sears Tower episode in early Jan.
@DavidS22003
Жыл бұрын
The willis tower is named after bruce willis who had a very succesful career starring in the die hard movies and all 5 seasons of babylon 5
@TeflonBarbie
4 ай бұрын
@@DavidS22003 lol what you talking bout Willis?!
@TeflonBarbie
4 ай бұрын
lol exactly
@Moe9112
Жыл бұрын
Wacker drive is the only street in Chicago that legally goes north south, east west! Mind blowing! I mastered that road and all of it's levels way back when I drove a cab, passengers paid good tips if I took it specially going to the river east condos. I hoped you would also mention the secret entrance in the 3rd level of Wacker drive just below the AON building that took you one straight shot to Mccormick place, it's not open to public though and used for top officials transport routes and other times used by the conventions busses at Mccormick! Great video and excellent channel!
@DRlFTIN
11 ай бұрын
When I was 19, I started working for a construction company on the west side. Most mornings I would have to go to lower wacker and the lesser known lower lasalle "garage" and deliver electrical supplies. Navigating down there was an absolute nightmare for the first few months of the job. Up until maybe a year ago, GPS navigation down there was basically unusable so you just had to figure it out the old fashioned way.
@TeflonBarbie
4 ай бұрын
yep
@domthabomb3045
Жыл бұрын
As a union carpenter working in Chicago the worst is when the building your working in has the dock on lower wacker drive. Always confusing. But lots of free parking if you know some of the alleys on lower wacker
@jakelindquist
Жыл бұрын
ahh good ol' lower lower Wacker drive had a buddies dad take us down there to skate and drive around in the early 2000's
@ebrim5013
Жыл бұрын
One of the great moments of moving to Chicago is learning how to use Lower Wacker. It’s a fantastic local hack.
@ord4r857
Жыл бұрын
Most suburbanites are well aware of Wacker Drive!
@BennysThoughts
Жыл бұрын
Yes, but they also think Portillos serves tasty Chicago-style food, so their common sense is still in doubt.
@12345diehappy
Жыл бұрын
lower lower wacker was the top level in a street racing video game back in the early 90s. It was fun to drive for real as long as you didn't get stuck in the middle of 2 guys racing. Those support poles pop up out of nowhere.
@VinceP1974
Жыл бұрын
Gotham Racing, I think. A Microsoft racing game?
@michelledisilvestro7786
Жыл бұрын
You didn't tell them that before the yellow lighting the original color was emerald green. Which looked so cool I remember as a child love going through there with the green hue everywhere.
@23MBeezy
Жыл бұрын
First, Lower Wacker Drive is forgotten for a reason. Shyt is a maze. Batman can keep them tunnels....Second, I will never call the Sears Tower anything other than the Sears Tower! Good vid
@TeflonBarbie
4 ай бұрын
hahaha wacker is cool once you figure it out
@spcneary
Жыл бұрын
Awesome video! I grew up in Chicago, and family members have told me about lower lower Wacker but I have never been there myself. I was always told that homeless and drug addicts will rob you down there which is why we never used the road.
@fahgedaboudit
Жыл бұрын
In the early 90's, I used to work dock security at 225 N. Michigan. That's when I first discovered a completely different world below street level. It always fascinated me down there.
@jaffasoursgames1032
Жыл бұрын
The Proper People should check this place out.
@kimberlyx4060
Жыл бұрын
Wacker was a person? Thank You for giving me a history lesson. Pretty cool video. I’ve been thru Wacker. Worked nights when filming was going on, pretty crazy place.
@DavidS22003
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for telling me that wacker drive was named after a person , i thought it had something to do with sex and masterbation
@blackhawks1870
Ай бұрын
@@DavidS22003lol
@jamespallister2031
Жыл бұрын
Lower wacker drive is one of the scariest roads I’ve driven with you thinking you’re hitting every post or hit by another car
@johnfritz1164
Жыл бұрын
It was even more fun before it was rebuilt when you had to dodge the pillars that came part way into the second traffic lane.
@richardburdick9430
Жыл бұрын
used to drive it quite recklessly in my younger days......
@justdrive5327
Жыл бұрын
Its in your mind. Theres plenty of room
@richardstephens3327
Жыл бұрын
I used to work with a group doing outreach to homeless around the country and spent a very memorable night staffing a mobile soup kitchen on the third level.
@PeterTea
Жыл бұрын
It took me years to figure out how to navigate lower wacker drive. Now when I see surface traffic I hop on lower Wacker and silently laugh to myself as I say “see ya suckers!”
@carrieanderson132
Жыл бұрын
Lower Wacker is like going thur a maze
@LonghornParanormal
Жыл бұрын
Bro I grew up in Chicago and had no idea there was a 3rd level. Thank you for sharing this.
@LonghornParanormal
Жыл бұрын
After 2 great videos and respect for the history instant follow and we don’t follow hardly anyone.
@ITSHISTORY
Жыл бұрын
Any time!
@dumbcurse
Жыл бұрын
Most people learned about the lowest level Wacker Service road is because their car got tolled and impounded and has to pick it up there. Even for local taxi drivers, most of them do not know how to navigate the maze down there.
@iDarkfigure
Жыл бұрын
Entertaining Brief on 'The History of Wacker Drive'. It would take about 3 hours or more to cover it completely in detail... There are hidden locations that absolutely no one has access to down there... Call One of them, 'Chicago Fire Time Capsule' Sealed off from public viewing... It's the stuff of nightmares.
@Medusalaughing
Жыл бұрын
I'm so interested to hear more about this!
@Chickenpatty878
Жыл бұрын
Tell me more
@sixfoonlocation8166
Жыл бұрын
i'd like to hear more abnout that as well
@man_on_wheelz
11 ай бұрын
Chicago native here, and with the work I do, I know of and have been in this lower-lower Wacker area to take measurements as well as the freight tunnels you mentioned that flooded in the early 90s. This city has layers... like an ogre... or an onion.
@willygoat9390
Жыл бұрын
I'm a little surprised that you didn't mention Lower Wackers cameo in the Blues Brothers, but it definitely is an interesting feat of road engineering.
@afs9612
Жыл бұрын
He did @ 8:50
@PoorKidOne
Жыл бұрын
As a life long Chicagoan who loves driving on Lower Wacker, I’ve never known about the even lower level. Looks like I’ve got somewhere to go tomorrow. Thanks for this.
@jefftucker9225
11 ай бұрын
It's where most of the loading docks are located for the buildings, if your a delivery driver, or a outside worker doing work in the building, it's where you have to go to check in, enter the building and park.
@Dior444L
Жыл бұрын
For all Tourists coming here to chicago in the future, if you find yourself down in the Lower Tunnels, your gps will loose connection so please be prepared, there are Speed Cameras hidden in the tunnels & above the tunnels and sometimes they will ticket you if you go 5 over the speed limit.
@BigDee0903
11 ай бұрын
I remembered back in the 80's/90's during the hight of the House Music craze, the was a club..... actually a juice bar called the Underground. I used to frequent it quite often. The memories of partying!
@sk3d123
Жыл бұрын
Please research Established Titles prior to sending them money.
@TeflonBarbie
4 ай бұрын
girllllllll
@JR-he6fn
Жыл бұрын
If we have issues finding our way out of lower wacker… I feel like anyone who’s gone into the third level has never been seen again
@scottswanson4578
Жыл бұрын
We would drive in from the west suburbs in the early '80 and as Captain Kirk would have said, do a little LDS and wander around the lower lower. Very trippy.
@garysarpy835
Жыл бұрын
Thoroughly enjoyed this. Well done. Thank you for putting some love on this beautiful place. There's so much more than crime and pizza here.
@murdelabop
Жыл бұрын
I've been there. I attended a convention and while there I went for a wander. The story possibilities are _epic_!
@onlyepicnessandbeingepic9233
Жыл бұрын
“Welp this is definitely lower wacker drive” Elwood blues-1980
@bambur1
Жыл бұрын
I remember the S curves and LSD being East of Soldier Field. THose were feats of engineering to accomplish
@shneonucrzydmnd
Жыл бұрын
Wait reading back what you are saying…. They moved LSD around soldier field to where it is now? That’s pretty awesome. I need to watch a video on that now!
@bambur1
11 ай бұрын
Exiting the planetarium was always exciting🤣
@bimmersandars9221
Жыл бұрын
I've delivered to everyone of those loading docks on Lower Wacker and lower lower Wacker and I still do nowadays.
@1KingJohney
Жыл бұрын
You forgot to mention that Lower Wacker Drive also gives us locals the chance for our google and Apple Maps more of a chance to give us directions that try to throw us into the lake 😂
@ChelseSims
Жыл бұрын
The lowest part of lower wacker drive is a pain to get to because nobody really knows how to access it for real. My car got towed downtown a couple years ago and that's where it was, we had to take the river walk stairs down there because the Uber guy didn't know how to access it because the gps doesn't really tell you. we had a homeless guy help us get there and then the gps knew how to get us out lbs. It's crazy I never knew it had 3 levels until then.
@TeflonBarbie
4 ай бұрын
lol crazy
@tamikaruskin2345
Жыл бұрын
I thought it was shikaakwa meaning stinking onion in Algonquin. That's what I was taught in geography class
@blackpanda7298
Жыл бұрын
Why do you have to remind us about that David Matthews band sitting on all the tours in the boat. Oh my God
@enriqueguajardo6429
Жыл бұрын
Ahhh yes lower wacker on Friday&Saturday nights in 2015-2018 where the best times. Car meets every week ahhh such nostalgia
@tylerkochman1007
Жыл бұрын
From my understanding the three-level scheme exists because of Illinois Center’s original master plan. And it only exists for a small portion of Wacker Drive’s route: Should have been been mentioned if true.
@mina_bean
Жыл бұрын
I ain forget that third level when my car was towed 🤣
@raypavey1102
Жыл бұрын
Is it just me but lower Wacker looks very familiar to a fan of The Dark Knight
@JJ-sq3jj
Жыл бұрын
I used to bartend at a restaurant thats connected to lower wacker. Our dumpsters were on the LOW LOW level, some of the creepiest shit at night you could ever imagine.
@MsUndead96
Жыл бұрын
Growing up in Chicago I love learning all the history just so sad of how corrupt & crime ridden it is today :(
@sandrasanders706
Жыл бұрын
So true!
@Backroad_Junkie
Жыл бұрын
Lol. Read the book "Boss" by Mike Royko. Chicago has *ALWAYS* been corrupt and crime ridden. It just used to be more organized than it is now.
@JDMSwervo2001
Жыл бұрын
Yea like every major city doesn’t have major crime
@Neevee-fz2ip
Жыл бұрын
seeing that red mach 1 looking like that breaks my heart
@stoyanoffice4961
Жыл бұрын
The Magnificent Mile is NOT Michican Ave south of the river that expanded north, it IS the mile north of the river ending at the curve by the Hancock and Playboy tower
@lambda2857
Жыл бұрын
I lived in Chicago all my life, and I never knew about lower lower Wacker Drive. Where the heck are the cops to stop the drag racing on the bottom level?
@brianwhedon8442
Жыл бұрын
Chicago can't afford to station officers down there. They did set up cameras tho, and those send people tickets in the mail. They also set up large "speed humps" which discourages a lot of car people from hanging out down there. As of 2022, no one goes down there anymore. All those "sideshows / takeovers" you see on the news these past 2 years down by Ford City Mall, or other areas of the city and suburbs, are those people that used to hang out at Lower Lower Wacker. That is what people did down there - they used the big open intersections to do donuts and burnouts. They call it "drifting"
@coriebarnes8680
Жыл бұрын
Lower Lower Wacker scares the crap out of me! 😱 I had to meet a friend down there at his job (of course on one of those loading docks of the hotel that he worked at). It looks creepy and dangerous. It was daytime so I can't imagine how it looks at night. I was so lost and scared that I almost gave up. GPS doesn't work down there so I had to call him and have him guide me to his dock. NEVA AGAIN! 🚫 They can keep Lower Lower Wacker hidden, as they should. I'm good with just Lower Wacker. I know that level and can navigate it with well from Navy Pier to Michigan Ave to the 290 Eisenhower Expressway.
@bimmerfan2126
11 ай бұрын
and there are parking garages down there that are a royal pain to find, been driving, parking, exploring lower levels for years ;)
@charlienyc1
Жыл бұрын
Interesting video. Was that Ogilvy station you referred to? How did you pronounce it?? Is it not 'oh gull vee'? Because that's what everyone I know (including many who are from Chicago & the surrounding suburbs) says it.
@obviouslytom
11 ай бұрын
You should cover all of the old coal tunnels that go throughout the city. Its always fun telling people who go to Chicago for the first time that the best way to get from North to South in the city is to take LSD. The look on their faces is always priceless.
@die2twice
Жыл бұрын
Went longboarding this summer w a buddy downtown saw a homeless guy with 5 huge pet rats 🐀 I’ll never forgot the vibes in the underground road
@MSportsEngineering
Жыл бұрын
I really liked this one
@RJLbwb
Жыл бұрын
"And you will see this guy, who decided to strike a pose for Google". Lol
@brandonha
Жыл бұрын
Coolest thing about the covid lockdown was that lower lower wacker became a street racing track. Give it some time for the statued of limitations to run out and @vinwiki will cover it.
@imchris5000
Жыл бұрын
wacker was always the car meet spot
@chi_guy
Жыл бұрын
This was new to Covid at all.
@coriebarnes8680
Жыл бұрын
Actually, it's not cool. Street racing is dangerous and people lose their lives and sometimes kill other innocent people in the process. NOT cool. 🚫 It's illegal and they should all be in jail.
@thedood2059
Жыл бұрын
God I miss how empty it was me and my friend would constantly try to best each others time from beginning to end on our bikes 😂 in a perfect world they would close it down for transportation and let the hooligans run it
@jenleigh342
Жыл бұрын
Not COOL FOR MY TWO FRIENDS WHO LIVE DOWNTOWN AND WERE KEPT AWAKE ON WEEKNIGHTS CONSTANTLY....🤬😠😡😤😡😠😠🤬🤬🤬🤬
@apexofhumanity
Жыл бұрын
I moved near Chicago about a decade ago. The first time I had a job on lower wacker, I was like wtf is this?! It also really messes with google earth.
@Steven_Williams
Жыл бұрын
I was just driving Lower Wacker Drive yesterday. I use it to bypass downtown traffic between Lake Shore Drive and the Expressway. Especially the Eisenhower.
@TeflonBarbie
4 ай бұрын
west side the best side baby
@Mysticblue1212
11 ай бұрын
All I remember when I visited Chicago for the first and last time is hating it when my GPS told me to go on lower Wacker drive. Because as it mentioned before GPS does not work down there. And I've never been there before
@erikhenryalvarez
Жыл бұрын
Ryan your Chicago videos are my favorite way to spend a lazy afternoon! Thank you!
@startmoneymotorsports
Жыл бұрын
im really glad you included the street racing culture in the history. thats how i knew about it and honestly its kids literally having fun and not getting into worse trouble
@s2kkyle
9 ай бұрын
its an embarrassment to Chicago racing and cad culture.
@OGimperial97
Жыл бұрын
I used to frequent Lower Wicker Drive when I was a bike messenger in 2007. Good times down there.
@sleeplessaquarius
Жыл бұрын
Oh wow ‼️
@ripwednesdayadams
Жыл бұрын
It’s amazing that they so many parks by the lakefront. If the same situation occurred today, the majority of the space would be split up between wealthy developers.
@xZipkan
Жыл бұрын
Also part of why there is this multi-level roadway was beause in the past the city was actually lower than it is today and had to be raised as it was sinking into the marsh. This is why some older buildings in the city have a staircase going down when you enter them.
@shneonucrzydmnd
Жыл бұрын
The sunken houses around Bridgeport are pretty cool to see, I never thought the wacker situation was because of the same thing. Brilliant.
@nslamon310
11 ай бұрын
It real is an amazing road, I've been driving it since I got my license early 2000s. Been using it like he said best way to get from one end to the other. One section takes you all the way to McCormick place from Randolph. It's unreal.
@yonismo4098
Жыл бұрын
I explored every inch of lower Wacker when I got a rental car from my insurance lol. Me and my friends were out until like 2 a.m. there was a nice park by one of the exits. Super low key
@VincesItalianRestaurant
6 ай бұрын
Thank goodness some people still have Sense enough to call it SEARS TOWER
@stevesummers2462
5 ай бұрын
It's nice to see one under ground street, but Chicago has at least 3! Two of them are on Canal starting just north of the river at about 19th Street, on the east side to Roosevelt, on the west side at least to under the post office. Then another very rough road that run just south of Kenzie, along the C&NW tracks from the river bridge to Navy Pier. It's spooky going under Merchandise Mart, One IBM Plaza, and Michigan Av.
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