Not sure how else they could do this without a podium, given that the on/off ramps still need to exist. They could have the park street level, but then you would have frequent gashes in the park space in order to accommodate the ramps.
Certainly we could get rid of some of the ramps (there are on/off ramps for almost every block in a 5 block stretch between Lake and Adams), but that might cause some pretty bad traffic backups during rush periods that IDOT would want to avoid.
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