C H I C A G O
Exchanges, consultancies and industrial headquarters work side by side on Chicago’s Midwestern lakefront.Commodity contracts are traded and cleared in Chicago. Consultancies, law firms and industrial headquarters work around the exchanges on the lakefront.

E C O N O M I C D E N S I T Y
Commodity trading, professional services and a large industrial region around the city form one lakefront labour market.
Exchanges + advisory
anchor the Loop economy
Sources: City of Chicago / Illinois economic briefings.
Trading-floor hours sit beside factory schedules. Plants set the delivery dates.Trading-floor hours run alongside the schedules of Midwestern manufacturers. The exchanges hire internationally; the plants outside the city set delivery dates.
C I T Y P O R T R A I T
Lot Discipline
What counts here: following a contract from the exchange to the plant with no clause missing.

Loop And Hinterland
The exchanges in the Loop and the industrial groups around the city are part of one market.

C I T Y P O R T R A I T


Loop And Hinterland
The exchanges in the Loop and the industrial groups around the city are part of one market.
Lot Discipline
What counts here: following a contract from the exchange to the plant with no clause missing.