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| South Water Street Looking west toward the Wells Street Elevated |
August 29, 1925 – After 80 years the South Water
street market dies at noon as progress moves forward and the first link of the
new Wacker Drive, between Franklin and Market Streets prepares to open to
traffic the following day. This is the day on which wreckers start demolishing
buildings on the north side of South Water Street east of La Salle to begin the
eastern extension of Wacker Drive. With
this action a market that began on the oldest street in the city, on a street
where the first Board of Trade was established in 1848, with annual business of
over $300,000,000, closes down and moves to a new location bounded by
Fourteenth Place, South Morgan Street, South Racine Avenue, and the Baltimore
and Ohio terminal. This market closed in
2001.
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