Chicago Loop Insights

Tu guía para conocer las mejores cosas que hacer, ver y experimentar en Chicago.

August Loop Operations Report

septiembre 14, 2021

2 MIN READ – Since July 2020, Chicago Loop Alliance (CLA) has released monthly reports on downtown activity using a variety of data sources to track operations during COVID-19, and today released its August report, which also includes data for Sundays on State. The report tracks COVID-19 positivity rates, pedestrian activity, parking volumes, hotel occupancy, number of office workers on-site and more. View the full August report here.

Lee más

Gene Siskel Film Center introduces “Chicago Favorites” series

agosto 19, 2021

3 MIN READ – The Gene Siskel Film Center is pleased to present Chicago Favorites, a series of eight films curated by a cross-section of notable Chicagoans. On eight dates between August 21 and September 28, select community members will introduce films they hand-picked and find personally and/or professionally meaningful, including Nashville, Princesse Tam-Tam, Contagion, and more. Several of the films will be presented in newly restored digital, with two titles–Jupiter Ascending and Singin’ In The Rain– to be screened in 35mm film.

Lee más

Two new hotels opening in the Loop

agosto 4, 2021

1 MIN READ – In late summer, the Loop is getting a 350 guestroom dual-branded hotel complex at the historical 117-year-old site of the former headquarters to the Chicago & North Western Railways at 226 W. Jackson—Canopy by Hilton Chicago Central Loop and the Hilton Garden Inn Central Loop.

Lee más

Lollapalooza foot traffic on State Street sets record for 2021

agosto 3, 2021

2 MIN READ – Lollapalooza crowds once again created a bump in pedestrian activity on State Street, according to data from Chicago Loop Alliance’s pedestrian counters that were installed on the street in 2016. For the week of the festival, July 26 – August 1, the counters estimated 1,371,570 visitors on State Street between Ida B. Wells Drive and Lake Street—a 36 percent increase from the previous week and the highest week of the year. Pedestrian impressions on State Street during the week of the festival were 76 percent of the levels of 2019.

Lee más

Couch Place, the Alley of the Death

14 de julio de 2021

2 MINAS DE LEER – Couch Place, o Calle de la Muerte, es una calle trasera inquietante de Chicago que tiene una historia trágica. Algunas personas que pasan por allí afirman que el callejón está embrujado. ¿Sabes qué pasó aquí?

Lee más