Navy Pier is a 3,300-foot (1,010 m) long pier on the
Chicago shoreline of Lake Michigan. It is located in the
Streeterville neighborhood of the Near North Side
community area. The pier was built in 1916 at a cost of
$4.5 million, equivalent to $87.8 million today. It was
a part of the Plan of Chicago developed by architect and
city planner Daniel Burnham and his associates. As
Municipal Pier #2 (Municipal Pier #1 was never built),
Navy Pier was planned and built to serve as a
mixed-purpose piece of public infrastructure. Its
primary purpose was as a cargo facility for lake
freighters, and warehouses were built up and down the
pier. However, the pier was also designed to provide
docking space for passenger excursion steamers, and in
the pre-air conditioning era parts of the pier,
especially its outermost tip, were designed to serve as
cool places for public gathering and entertainment. The
pier even had its own streetcar. Today, Navy Pier is
Chicago's number one tourist attraction.
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