The complex multi-tiered roadways and decks east of Michigan Avenue between Millennium Park and the Chicago River are an engineering marvel.

Lower Wacker Drive, a part of that intricate grid, connects the New East Side neighborhood to I-90/94/294 via the recently completed Congress Parkway interchange.

Join me in the video for a rush-hour drive from the little-known and lightly-traveled Lower Beaubien Ct to the Kennedy Expressway. Part of the trip moves at near-expressway speeds, avoiding what would have otherwise been a crosstown crawl.

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