Charles Wacker & Wacker Family

* Wacker Drive named for him * Youngest director of the 1893 World’s Fair at age 37 * Chicago’s Plan Commission after the fair * Advocated for public spaces like the lakefront * Lived in Old Town Triangle in a cottage built by his father * Father Frederick Wacker was a German “48’er” immigrant * The Wackers and Burnham shaped modern Chicago * The Wackers partnered with Michael Diversey in brewing * Diversey Parkway named after their brewery partner