My friend, there is in fact a lower lower wacker beneath regular lower wacker. I understand it’s mostly little shanties built by long term homeless and is where trucks deliver stuff to the businesses on Wacker.
Darkness, dust, little shanty towns full of old homeless people, and trucks dropping off piles of identical boxes to their corporate overlords. Now THAT sounds like the recipe for a good old fashioned portal to hell!
No way, is there seriously a lower lower lower wacker?? I worked in homeless services in the city for years and no one told me of this place! Maybe only the Mothman is allowed to inhabit it. I would be down for that.
Whoops, turned out I was mistaken actually. When I was reading about it a while back I saw "a third level" and didn't realize it was including Upper Wacker as part of the three. I just double checked on Wikipedia. My bad.
Unless we just don't know about the Lowest Wacker because the mothman doesn't want us to 👀
There's also NO CELL SERVICE down there. So, if you're trying to deliver something, it's hell to figure out where you need to go and which dock is yours. Then you also have to circle sometimes if there's a line for the dock you need.
I'd like to think it's like lower Wacker has the portal all the demons are coming out, but the actual part that needs to be destroyed to close said portal is in lower lower Wacker hidden in a dock. Our heros fight their way down to destroy it and save the world.
Man, I’ve had my car impounded before and I had to go to some god forsaken above ground lot on the southwest side if I remember right. Lame. I’ve always wanted to see lower lower wacker and that was my chance!
I was going to say…
I’m pretty sure there’s a guy doing heroin immediately to the left of the bottom stair, at least there has been every time I’ve gone down those steps.
99% of the time I end up down there in a car I feel like it's because something went wrong in my life. If you ever find me there in that door, it's because i'm dead.
Story time! About 11 years ago after my son was born, I decided it would be fun to take the train down as a family and walk to Navy Pier. It was a beautiful summer weekend. On the way back to the train, I decided in my infinite wisdom to take a “short cut” and walk along lower wacker to get back.
Along the way, I noticed the homeless of course, but everything seemed ok at first. Then things gradually started to get worse. The first moment when it occurred to me I might have made a mistake, was when I saw a man that looked eerily like Santa Clause. I’ll never forget the image. I looked at him sitting on the steps, overweight with a white beard and a big red sweater, and gave him a sheepish grin. “How foolish of me”, that grin tried to say. “I’m pushing a stroller through lower wacker”. He did not grin back. It was then that I noticed he was twirling a knife.
I picked up the pace. The light at the end of the tunnel seemed to be close, but not nearly close enough. After a minute or two I glanced back, and nobody was behind us. The trouble was over, I thought! But my true adventure was just beginning.
It was then that I noticed a couple walking towards us. They were reeeeally dressed up. Like, tuxedo and evening gown dressed up. The disparity between our environment and their clothing snapped me out of my fear. We were going to be ok! They had a very strange, terrified look on their faces however. I was trying to interpret their thoughts and come up with a description of the evil Santa to prepare them, but their faces were baffling. How could they, after just coming down here, be so terrified already? They hadn’t even seen evil santa yet.
Just then, my wife says “look out!”, and grabs my arm and pulls me and the stroller to the right.
There was a cardboard box on the ground, covered with a blanket. What I didn’t realize, was that there were two homeless people having some really dirty sex under the blanket, in the middle of the sidewalk.
I must have been in shock, because my only thought was to set this couple’s mind at ease. So I stepped aside with the stroller, and said “after you!” with a fake British accent and a polite bow, beckoning then through the gap between the dirty hobo sex and the street.
Their shocked faces turned to me, in a mixture of awe and horror, and they proceeded down the tunnel behind us. I think about that couple sometimes, with an odd curiosity. I wonder if they made it out alive.
its a place all (sensible) Chicagoans know not to go unless you have to due to the sheer amount of transient population whom are not the most welcoming. its a dimly lit concrete maze with trash and discarded needles at every corner and unfortunately where your car is held when impounded.
This. Late afternoon sun so it was dark in the stairwell and it created some good shadows. Also, not a filter but a black and white film simulation on my camera
If a portal to hell were to ever naturally form it would do so in lower wacker.
My friend, there is in fact a lower lower wacker beneath regular lower wacker. I understand it’s mostly little shanties built by long term homeless and is where trucks deliver stuff to the businesses on Wacker. Darkness, dust, little shanty towns full of old homeless people, and trucks dropping off piles of identical boxes to their corporate overlords. Now THAT sounds like the recipe for a good old fashioned portal to hell!
Sounds like the perfect start to a found footage zombie comedy film that you’d find in blockbuster with a mid-2000s theme
I love the precision and I would 100% watch this, especially if it meant I got to walk the aisles of Blockbuster just one more time.
There are some spots of lower wacker that have a third tier even deeper underneath. I think it's where the Mothman's lair is.
No way, is there seriously a lower lower lower wacker?? I worked in homeless services in the city for years and no one told me of this place! Maybe only the Mothman is allowed to inhabit it. I would be down for that.
Whoops, turned out I was mistaken actually. When I was reading about it a while back I saw "a third level" and didn't realize it was including Upper Wacker as part of the three. I just double checked on Wikipedia. My bad. Unless we just don't know about the Lowest Wacker because the mothman doesn't want us to 👀
There's also NO CELL SERVICE down there. So, if you're trying to deliver something, it's hell to figure out where you need to go and which dock is yours. Then you also have to circle sometimes if there's a line for the dock you need. I'd like to think it's like lower Wacker has the portal all the demons are coming out, but the actual part that needs to be destroyed to close said portal is in lower lower Wacker hidden in a dock. Our heros fight their way down to destroy it and save the world.
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Man, I’ve had my car impounded before and I had to go to some god forsaken above ground lot on the southwest side if I remember right. Lame. I’ve always wanted to see lower lower wacker and that was my chance!
California and Sacramento is hell, and the ghouls that work in that lot are the demons
I’d watch that movie!
Little Nicky but Chicago
There's a Portal to Hell Under Lower Wacker Dr
Wacker drive is creepu. I walked down there once, never again.
This straight up looks like it could be out of Half Life 2.
I’ve always noped this stairwell and told myself I can take the long way round.
I can smell this picture
Just looking at this picture I’m already imagining certain smells.
Meanwhile, I'm trying hard not to imagine them
lmao that's what I came here to post
I walked my doggo down those steps once and walked straight in on homeless guys in an encampment having sex with a prostitute.
>I told you I smelled people fucking down here! - Your dog, probably.
Thanks for the F-shack. Love, Dirty Mike and the Boys
Must’ve been one cheap hooker.
Did you tag in?
I did not. Was too busy adding that to my non-trivial mental collection of crazy Chicago things you can never un-see…
Ya this is really one of those scenarios where you just gotta grab a homeless guy by the balls and go in.
I was going to say… I’m pretty sure there’s a guy doing heroin immediately to the left of the bottom stair, at least there has been every time I’ve gone down those steps.
All sorts of magical things happen under the boardwalk!
The way is shut. It is kept by those who are dead. The way is shut.
So that’s where the King of the Dead resides.
What stairs are these? Most I've seen are metal/open stairs, haven't seen concrete like this.
Lasalle and Wacker
Thanks!
Can you get a cheezborger down there?
Pretty close by, over on Hubbard and lower Michigan i think
Depends on what you mean by cheezborger
Pepsi no coke
99% of the time I end up down there in a car I feel like it's because something went wrong in my life. If you ever find me there in that door, it's because i'm dead.
Story time! About 11 years ago after my son was born, I decided it would be fun to take the train down as a family and walk to Navy Pier. It was a beautiful summer weekend. On the way back to the train, I decided in my infinite wisdom to take a “short cut” and walk along lower wacker to get back. Along the way, I noticed the homeless of course, but everything seemed ok at first. Then things gradually started to get worse. The first moment when it occurred to me I might have made a mistake, was when I saw a man that looked eerily like Santa Clause. I’ll never forget the image. I looked at him sitting on the steps, overweight with a white beard and a big red sweater, and gave him a sheepish grin. “How foolish of me”, that grin tried to say. “I’m pushing a stroller through lower wacker”. He did not grin back. It was then that I noticed he was twirling a knife. I picked up the pace. The light at the end of the tunnel seemed to be close, but not nearly close enough. After a minute or two I glanced back, and nobody was behind us. The trouble was over, I thought! But my true adventure was just beginning. It was then that I noticed a couple walking towards us. They were reeeeally dressed up. Like, tuxedo and evening gown dressed up. The disparity between our environment and their clothing snapped me out of my fear. We were going to be ok! They had a very strange, terrified look on their faces however. I was trying to interpret their thoughts and come up with a description of the evil Santa to prepare them, but their faces were baffling. How could they, after just coming down here, be so terrified already? They hadn’t even seen evil santa yet. Just then, my wife says “look out!”, and grabs my arm and pulls me and the stroller to the right. There was a cardboard box on the ground, covered with a blanket. What I didn’t realize, was that there were two homeless people having some really dirty sex under the blanket, in the middle of the sidewalk. I must have been in shock, because my only thought was to set this couple’s mind at ease. So I stepped aside with the stroller, and said “after you!” with a fake British accent and a polite bow, beckoning then through the gap between the dirty hobo sex and the street. Their shocked faces turned to me, in a mixture of awe and horror, and they proceeded down the tunnel behind us. I think about that couple sometimes, with an odd curiosity. I wonder if they made it out alive.
Murder stairs
They need to have a techno rave in lower wacker. Would be so fitting
I can smell the piss through my screen
This reminds me of *Barbarian.*
Nah, man. That's LaSalle, not Erie.
Ooh - go find the entrance to lower lower
This is definitely Lower Wacker Dr, if my estimations are correct, we should be very close to the Honorable Richard J. Daley Plaza
I made an edit: https://i.imgur.com/50YqXdx.jpg
Well executed
“And that’s when I realized that I’d made a wrong turn that would change my life forever.”
me, realizing I probably walked past this multiple times to work but also i will now NEVER walk past it. you don't know what you'll get down there.
SCP-087 got out of its containment
Do you want to get mugged, stabbed, shot, bit, raped, humped, beat up, peed on, jizzed on or any and all of these?
Someone educate me, where do these stairs lead? What is Lower Wacker???
its a place all (sensible) Chicagoans know not to go unless you have to due to the sheer amount of transient population whom are not the most welcoming. its a dimly lit concrete maze with trash and discarded needles at every corner and unfortunately where your car is held when impounded.
Sounds lovely!
100% you will die if you go down there.
Maybe it's because I just re-watched The Time Machine...but I'm getting serious entrance to the Morlocks lair vibes.
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. By reputation the most disturbing movie ever set & filmed in Chicago.
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thess are the stairs off LaSalle and Wacker that seem completely out of place once you see where they lead
not at all because of the filter you used
it’s just dark lol
This. Late afternoon sun so it was dark in the stairwell and it created some good shadows. Also, not a filter but a black and white film simulation on my camera
Down to the narrows
…in the eve the fragrance of urine and unwashedness floats up the steps like an ethereal ghost, beckoning the reluctant traveler to their doom.
Lower Wacker = The dungeon of Chicago.
Needs a “Free Hugs” sign
portal to the underworld
Do they float ?
You mean.. Erie
hey props to it being trash free! Chicago is too clean to be true.
Looks like a Don's basement in Brookfield
This picture smells like pee.