Ida B. Wells Drive is a major east–west street in downtown Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It runs east from the Jane Byrne Interchange, where it meets Interstate 90 (I-90), I-94 and I-290. At Wells Street, Ida B. Wells Drive continues as a surface street past State Street and Michigan Avenue, until ending at Columbus Drive in Grant Park in front of the Buckingham Fountain. In 2018, the editorial board of The New York Times praised the Chicago City Council's renaming of the street to honor the journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells.
Ida B. Wells Drive, looking west at Michigan Avenue
The Jane Byrne Interchange at the west end of Ida B. Wells Drive (lower left), looking toward the west-southwest. The Eisenhower Expressway continues upper-right.
Ida B. Wells Drive, approaching the under-tunnel at the Old Main Post Office
Congress Parkway at State St., 1978
Michigan Avenue is a north-south street in Chicago that runs at 100 east on the Chicago grid. The northern end of the street is at Lake Shore Drive on the shore of Lake Michigan in the Gold Coast Historic District. The street's southern terminus is at Sibley Boulevard in the southern suburb of Dolton, but like many other Chicago streets, it exists in several disjointed segments.
Michigan Avenue in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago
A 1921 edition of Collier's magazine featuring Michigan Avenue from Grant Park
Michigan Avenue under renovation in the 1950s with the Art Institute of Chicago visible in the background
Historic Michigan Boulevard District in 1911