Chicago - Wacker Drive

101 North Wacker Drive is a twenty-three story office building, constructed of silver-toned aluminum and insulated glass.

200 South Wacker Drive in Chicago is noted for the two triangular prisms joined in a trapezoid form that form this building's shape.

At the bend into West Wacker Drive is the slightly curved 333 West Wacker Drive Building, its gleaming steel and glass facade reflecting the Chicago River and neighboring buildings. It is particularly eye-catching at sunset.

Completed in 1983 on the design of the architecture firm, Kohn Pedersen Fox, the green-glass, 36-story building is the headquarters of John Nuveen and Company. One facade is curved to follow the contours of the waterfront and the other is flat.

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange and International Monetary Market (the "Merc") is one of the largest commodity and financial markets in the world.

Architect Helmut Jahn incorporated a series of glass fronted semi arches so that Citicorp Center looks much like a 1930s streamlined jukebox, with a 1980s bluish glass and silver metal exterior. The complex was formerly called the Northwestern Atrium Center, partly because of its significant atrium. These offices and retail arcades sit above a commuter rail station which generates ongoing pedestrian traffic.

Fronting Wacker but also facing the South Chicago River with a wall of windows, this opera house was built in 1929 to house the Lyric Opera of Chicago. The building incorporates offices in its Art Deco skyscraper. The architects were Graham, Anderson, Probst & White.

The Lyric Opera of Chicago features an eight opera season to over 30,000 subscribers. It began in 1954 and is world-renowned.

One South Wacker Drive in Chicago features 3 private atriums at 3 levels that are enclosed in pink glass.