National Historic Landmark · tower block · Chicago, Illinois

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.

National Historic Landmark Built 1930 Listed 1978 Art Deco architecture Holabird & Root

Photos via Wikimedia Commons · 6 in the Commons category

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
Listed for	Commerce, Agriculture
Level of significance	National
Reference number	78003181
Built	1930 · more from the 1930s
Architect	Holabird & Root
Type of place	tower block
Style	Art Deco architecture
Designations	National Historic Landmark, Chicago Landmark
Contributing resources	1 building

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	40.9772° N, 87.6235° W · Directions ↗
Also in Chicago	419 listed places in Chicago → · walking tours →
Nearest national park unit	Pullman National Historical Park · 50 miles · on Park Atlas

Listing on the Register does not open the door. Unless a museum or park runs it, treat this as private property and see it from the sidewalk.

At a glance

State: Illinois
County: Cook County
Listed: 1978
Type: Building
Landmark: Yes
Architect: Holabird & Root
Built: 1930

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T-Mobile: no reported coverage

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Public land around it

Kankakee National Wildlife Refuge and Conservation Area ↗National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

About 5 miles away65 acres

Wilderness Atlas publishes a centroid and an acreage for each unit, not a boundary line. Distance here is measured to a circle of the same area drawn around that centroid, so treat it as roughly right rather than surveyed.

Local history books for Chicago

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Sears in Chicago
Val Perry Rendel, 2019
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Chicago Rink Rats
Tom Russo and Darius "D-Breez" Stroud, 2017
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Chicago Haymarket Affair
Joseph Rulli, 2016
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Guidebooks to historic places and travel in Illinois

Looking for Lincoln in Illinois
Erika Holst, 2018
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Route 66 In Springfield
Cheryl Jett, 2010
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Cemeteries of Illinois
Hal Hassen and Dawn Cobb, 2017
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Reference

Questions people ask

When was Chicago Board of Trade Building listed on the National Register?

Jun 16, 1978. It is also a National Historic Landmark, the higher of the two designations.

Source: National Park Service

When was Chicago Board of Trade Building built?

1930, designed by Holabird & Root, in the Art Deco architecture style.

Source: Wikidata

Where is Chicago Board of Trade Building?

141 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. The nearest national park unit is Pullman National Historical Park, 50 miles away.

Source: Pullman National Historical Park

Where is the nomination form for Chicago Board of Trade Building?

The National Archives holds the nomination form, the document that made the case for listing.

Source: National Archives

Is there cell service at Chicago Board of Trade Building?

FCC coverage maps show Verizon 4G LTE at the listed point. Coverage indoors and behind old masonry is another matter.

Source: FCC Broadband Map

Sources

Location, type and contributing counts come from the National Park Service's National Register spatial data. Listing dates come from the National Register office's spreadsheet where it carries the listing. 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 nomination form and photographs ↗ at NPGallery are the original nomination as filed with the National Park Service, and the form is often the best description of the place. The description under "What it is" is the opening of the Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA.