Municipal Pier is a 3,300-foot-long (1,010 m) pier on the shoreline of [[Lake Michigan]], located in [[Streeterville]]. Besides docks for freighters and passenger ships, Municipal Pier encompasses shops, restaurants, live theatres, family attractions, parks, gardens, exhibition facilities and even a jail house for draft dodgers. Navy Pier opened to the public on July 15, 1916 and was built by Charles Sumner Frost, a nationally known architect, with a design based on the 1909 Plan of Chicago by Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennett.