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.