Chicago Board of Trade Building
Skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. Built 1930 by Holabird & Root. Added to the National Register in 1978, and a National Historic Landmark.
What it is
The Chicago Board of Trade Building is a 44-story, 604-foot (184 m) Art Deco skyscraper located in the Chicago Loop, standing at the foot of the LaSalle Street "canyon". Built in 1930 for the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), it has served as the primary trading venue of the CBOT and later the CME Group, formed in 2007 by the merger of the CBOT and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. In 2012, the CME Group sold the CBOT Building to a consortium of real estate investors, including GlenStar Properties LLC and USAA Real Estate Company.
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The record
| Property type | Building |
| Address | 141 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL |
| County | Cook County |
| Listed | Jun 16, 1978 |
| Reference number | 78003181 |
| Built | 1930 |
| Architect | Holabird & Root |
| Type of place | tower block |
| Style | Art Deco architecture |
| Designations | National Historic Landmark, Chicago Landmark |
| Contributing resources | 1 buildings |
The nomination form, the document that argues why this place matters, is in the National Archives: Read the nomination ↗
Visiting
| Address | 141 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL |
| Coordinates | 40.97722, -87.62353 · Directions ↗ |
| Nearest national park unit | Pullman National Historical Park · 50 mi · on Park Atlas |
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Sources
Location, dates, type and contributing counts come from the National Park Service's National Register spatial data. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 78003181. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The description under "What it is" is the opening of the Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA.