It snarls traffic badly, and I've seen many near-crashes when drivers round a curve!" Lanes closed on westbound Lower Wacker Drive two years ago when construction started on Chicago's Riverwalk.

In May of 2016, also along Lower Wacker Drive, Kromelis was beaten by an attacker wielding a baseball bat. He spent several weeks hospitalized and he rallied back.

His routine of delivering dinner, blankets, hand warmers and other necessities has touched countless lives, earning him the nick name 'The Angel of Lower Wacker Drive'.

If you’ve had your car towed in Chicago, there’s a decent chance you had to journey down to Lower Lower Wacker Drive — likely not in the best of moods — to open your wallet and recollect ...

The race began and ended in Grant Park, featuring closures on several major roadways including Columbus Drive, Michigan Avenue, Lower Wacker Drive and several others.

In August 2023, the second day of a record-breaking heatwave in the Chicago area, a man living on Lower Wacker Drive receives cold bottled water from the Night Ministry’s street medicine van.