Editing Muddy Waters (section)

==Legacy==
Two years after his death, the city of [[Chicago]] paid tribute to him by designating the one-block section between 900 and 1000 East 43rd Street near his former home on the south side "Honorary Muddy Waters Drive".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagoancestors.org/downloads/honorary.pdf |title=List of honorary Chicago street designations |publisher=Chicagoancestors.org |access-date=July 18, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325223611/http://www.chicagoancestors.org/downloads/honorary.pdf |archive-date=March 25, 2009}}</ref> In 2017, a ten stories-mural commissioned as a part of the [[Chicago Blues Festival]] and designed by Brazilian artist [[Eduardo Kobra]] was painted on the side of the building at 17 North State Street, at the corner of State and Washington Streets.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Massive Muddy Waters Mural To Be Dedicated in Chicago |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/massive-muddy-waters-mural-to-be-dedicated-in-chicago-w486055 |magazine=Rolling Stone}}</ref> The Chicago suburb of Westmont, where he lived the last decade of his life, named a section of Cass Avenue near his home "Honorary Muddy Waters Way".

In 2008,  the Mississippi Blues Commission marked the site of his cabin with a marker as part of the [[Mississippi Blues Trail]] in [[Clarksdale, Mississippi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.msbluestrail.org/blues_trail/|title=Mississippi Blues Commission&nbsp;– Blues Trail|publisher=Msbluestrail.org|access-date=May 28, 2008}}</ref> He also received a plaque on the [[Clarksdale Walk of Fame]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://memphismagazine.com/February-2011/Clarksdale-Moving-Past-the-Crossroads/|title=Clarksdale: Moving Past the Crossroads|date=March 3, 2011|website=Memphis magazine|language=en-us}}</ref>

Muddy Waters' Chicago Home in the Kenwood neighborhood is in the process of being named a Chicago Landmark.<ref name="Evans">{{cite web |last1=Evans |first1=Maxwell |title= Muddy Waters' Kenwood Home Clears Major Hurdle Toward Chicago Landmark Status |url=https://blockclubchicago.org/2021/08/05/muddy-waters-kenwood-home-clears-major-hurdle-toward-chicago-landmark-status/ |website=Block Club Chicago |access-date=September 4, 2021 |date=August 5, 2021}}</ref>

[[Waters (crater)|A crater]] on [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]] was named in his honor in 2016 by the [[International Astronomical Union|IAU]].<ref>{{cite web |url = http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/15086 |title = Waters |publisher = [[NASA]] |work = Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature |accessdate = 18 January 2020}}</ref>

In 2023, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' ranked him at number 72 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=January 1, 2023|title=The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-singers-all-time-1234642307/muddy-waters-5-1234643085/|access-date=July 10, 2023|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US}}</ref>