Chicago Loop

With The Loop residents call the downtown area of Chicago. It is to Midtown Manhattan is the second largest business district in the United States. To the west it borders the Chicago River, on the east by Lake Michigan, and on the south by Roosevelt Road. More and more high buildings were erected lack of space. The Home Insurance Building is considered one of the first skyscrapers. The Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower ) from 1974 to 2013, the tallest building in the United States and continues to be the city's tallest.

The Loop also specifically describes the smaller part of the quarter, the Chicago Community Area 32, which is enclosed by the raised circular route of the Chicago "EL". The route runs along the Lake St. in the north, Wabash Ave. in the east, Van Buren St. in the south and Wells St. in the west.

The term loop means for German as much as loop, stirred but in the case of Chicago not as often claimed by the elevated train, but from a running as a funicular tram that ran around the square before 1900. The design was similar to the Cable Cars in San Francisco.

16,388 people live in the Loop, according to the census of 2000. It also includes an outdoor sculpture by Pablo Picasso, just like the Chicago Art Institute.

In the Loop is the historic twelve -storey building of the Great Marshall Field Company Store. It was taken from the National Register of Historic Places on June 2, 1978, the number 78,001,123.

There is also a movie called Chicago Loop by James Benning.