Stairway to Sub Lower Wacker (Chicago)

            This is a stairway to the downtown Chicago street with the cool name of "Sub Lower Wacker" or "Lower Lower Wacker Drive". Near the cross street of Lower Stetson Drive (or Lower Lower Stetson? it gets confusing).

This is a public staircase, although it has no marking, signage or wayfinding and frankly is pretty uninviting (truly seems to be fit the group "Hidden Chicago"). Going up, it leads to the middle level of Wacker Drive, and then the surface level (with the sunlight!).
The lowest street level here is primarily used for service access and parking and is also named "Wacker Service Drive", but "Sub Lower Wacker and "Lower Lower Wacker" are much more poetic.

This is at river / Riverwalk level, and you can walk right into Lower Lower Wacker from the riverwalk here.

Photo taken August 2022.
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Taken in: United States / Illinois / Chicago / Cityfront Center (show map)

Taken on: August 12, 2022

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