By Steve Rhodes
When I was a kid growing up in suburban Minneapolis, my parents would sometimes take me and my brother to Chicago for a weekend in the summer. My father had an uncle who lived here and used to work in the cab business; he knew how Chicago worked. Later he married well and moved to a pricey condo in Water Tower Place. We would do the museums and restaurants and so on, blah blah blah. But my favorite thing about Chicago was what I called “the streets under the streets.” I always asked for one more drive on these subterranean marvels. It was just the coolest thing ever. (Memo to David Daskal: You don’t have to live here to get it; quite the opposite. Native Chicagoans are much more nonchalant about the lower drives.)
Well, the city announced last Friday that the streets under the streets were back – open for driving after a lengthy reconstruction project. Let’s take a look.
Posted on December 3, 2012