LaSalle Street is a major north-south street in Chicago. The portion that runs through the Loop is considered to be Chicago's financial district. For most of its run, the street has the address 200 West. See Streets and highways of Chicago. Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... The Loop is what locals call the downtown neighborhood of Chicago. ... The Financial District is used to refer to: The Financial District (Manhattan) in New York City, New York The Financial District (San Francisco) in California A station on the Detroit People Mover This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same... Night view of the tollbooths as you enter Chicago from the Chicago Skyway // Street layout The streets of Chicago primarily follow the grid system which was established by the City Council in 1908 and implemented on September, 1st 1909. ...
The south end of LaSalle Street in the Loop is marked by the art-deco Chicago Board of Trade building. The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), established in 1848, is the worlds oldest commodity for trading in futures and options. ...
The LaSalle Street Station commuter terminal is located directly south of the Board of Trade.
It is interesting to note that rather than being centered and aligned along the centerline of the mezzanine, the booth in the LaSalle mezzanine is actually angled to the north, perhaps arranged to serve heavy traffic that was expected from LaSalleStreet Station to the north.
Though much of the structural work of the Dearborn Subway was concurrent with that of State Street's (which was begun in 1938 and opened in 1943), construction on the Dearborn line was suspended in 1941 due to wartime materials shortages.
LaSalle was the end of the line until 1958 when the connecting Congress Line was completed, so trains turned through the diamond crossover to make the trip back to Logan Square.
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