The Congress Circle near Michigan Avenue will be closed again during next week's NFL Draft. View Full Caption DNAinfo/David Matthews

DOWNTOWN — Here are the Downtown streets to avoid during next week's NFL Draft in Chicago.

Balbo Drive from Columbus to Lake Shore drives is already closed through May 6 for the draft, which is taking up more of Grant Park in its return to Chicago. Eastbound Balbo will reopen the morning of April 24 then close again May 3.

The city will also close Michigan Avenue from Van Buren Street to Congress Parkway from 9 p.m. Tuesday to 5 a.m. Wednesday. Michigan will also be closed from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. the first two days of the draft, April 28 and 29, from Jackson Boulevard to Balbo.

Columbus will be closed from 9 p.m. Thursday to 8 a.m. Friday from Jackson to Balbo as the NFL sets up its "Draft Town" festival. Columbus will be closed at 8 p.m. Friday through May 2 for the draft.

Congress will be closed Friday night through May 2 from Michigan to Columbus for the draft. Congress will also be closed from 3 p.m. to approximately 8 p.m. April 28 and April 29 from Michigan to Wabash Avenue.

The focus of this year's bigger festival will shift farther away from Michigan Avenue and more toward the lakefront, with TV sets and the draft's "selection square" where picks are announced encircling Buckingham Fountain. Presumptive first-round picks will still enter Roosevelt University's Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Congress Parkway, on a red carpet the first night of the draft April 28.

The Ferris wheel, a new attraction, will sit on a Grant Park lawn at roughly Van Buren Street.

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