Chicago Loop
Landmarks for Lawyers
Self-walking tour of the Chicago Loop’s historic sites—for lawyers!
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8 City Hall
Marshall Field’s
Clock
Washington St
Franklin St
Washington St
State St
Calhoun Pl
6
Madison St
Millennium
Park
Madison St
Clark St
N Wacker Dr
Randolph St
7
Michigan Ave
Court Pl
Dearborn St
Wells St
Randolph St
E Benton PL
W Couch Pl
N LaSalle St
W Couch Pl
Arcade Pl
Board of Trade
2
Everett
McKinley
Dirksen
U.S.
Courthouse
Wabash Ave
The Rookery
1
Michigan Ave
Dearborn St
Berghoff
Clark St
Jackson Blvd
5 Art Institute
3 The
Adams St
9
Wells St
W Quincy St
W Marble Pl
Monroe St
State St
START
Adams St
S LaSalle St
Franklin St
S Lower Wacker
Monroe St
4
Chicago Architecture
Foundation
See back of flyer for interesting facts about each of the above numbered locations.
Chicago Loop: Landmarks for Lawyers
1
Board of Trade
Chicago Board of Trade v. United States – 246 U.S. 231 (1918) In 1913, the Chicago Board of Trade introduced a new “call rule” that set the price at
the close of the session and regulated members selling or buying “to arrive” grain orders after the close of the call session to the start of the next day.
The U.S. Department of Justice accused the Chicago Board of Trade of price-fixing and filed suit in the United States District Court for the Northern
District of Illinois. At trial, the Chicago Board of Trade declared the rule was only to restrict abuses that were being carried out by high-level board
members. The Justice Department and the CBOT entered into a consent decree, which was later reversed after Justice Louis Brandeis found the rule
promoted competition and was not in violation of restraining trade. Reference: http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/246/231/case.html
2
Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse
Designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and finished in 1964, this building is home to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the U.S.
District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, and many other court-related federal agencies. The courthouse has 1.4
million square feet and was designed with 15 two-story courtrooms located at the top of the building.
3
The Berghoff
The Berghoff restaurant was opened in 1898 by Herman Joseph Berghoff. Herman and his three brothers, originally from Dortmund, Germany,
emigrated to the Midwest and started brewing a Dortmunder-style beer. They opened the café to market the beer, which they sold for a nickel.
Sandwiches were offered for free. During the Prohibition Era, the bar became a full-service restaurant and remained open by selling a “near beer,”
which they now sell as root beer. After prohibition, the Berghoff maintained a separate men-only bar. This practice ended in 1969, when a group of
women from the National Organization of Women protested and demanded service. It has also been noted that for much of its service, waiters at the
Berghoff would purchase meals from the kitchen and deliver them to the customer, keeping the money the customer paid for the meal. In 2006, the
Berghoff closed briefly after 107 years of service and was reopened a few months later. The café and full-service restaurant are now run by Carolyn
Berghoff, a fourth-generation Berghoff.
4
Chicago Architecture Foundation
In 1966, a group of community activists and architecture buffs joined forces to save the Glessner House, a South Side private home considered a
masterpiece, designed by architect H. H. Richardson. This legal victory led to the formation of the Chicago Architecture Foundation. Five years later,
the foundation began its popular walking tours, still in existence today. In 1993, it began offering its famous Architecture River Cruise on the Chicago
River, the most popular architecture cruise in the city. Today, it boasts nearly 8,000 members and yearly tour attendances of nearly 300,000.
5
Art Institute
Take a good look at the Art Institute’s beautiful and acclaimed new Modern Wing. In September 2010 the museum filed suit against the engineers that
designed its details, alleging it cost $10 million to repair defects.
6
Millennium Park
The Park Grill, located in Millennium Park, is exempt from property taxes, and does not pay for water, gas or garbage pickup because of their original
contract with the City of Chicago. The Park Grill is one of the most financially successful restaurants in Chicago and remains exempt from these taxes
after multiyear litigation, which reached the Illinois Supreme Court.
7
Marshall Field’s Clock
The southwest clock, known as the Great Clock, was installed on November 26, 1897. Marshall Field envisioned the clock as a beacon for his store,
which he viewed as a meeting place. The clock was installed after the southwest corner of the store had become a popular meeting place and people
began leaving notes for one another on the Marshall Field’s windows. The clock was an attempt to end this practice and encourage punctuality. On
November 3, 1945, Norman Rockwell painted a picture of one of the Marshall Field Building clocks for the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. The
Rockwell painting shows a man perched atop a ladder and adjusting one of the Marshall Field’s clocks to correspond with his own pocket watch.
In 1948, Rockwell donated the original painting, The Clock Mender, to the store, where it has hung on the seventh floor ever since. After Target Co.
sold Field’s to May Department Stores, which merged with Federated Department Stores in 2005, Federated discovered a reproduction on display.
Federated removed the fake and asked Target to return the original. The painting has been donated to the Chicago Historical Society.
8
City Hall
The exterior of City Hall was constructed in a classical revival style and designed by Holabird & Roche. The building has a rooftop garden (open to the
public) that was installed in 2001 to encourage the development of rooftop gardens throughout the city. The Chambers of the Chicago City Council
are located at City Hall. On October 7, 1997, the Chicago City Council officially declared Mrs. O’Leary and her cow were not to blame for the Great
Chicago Fire, which destroyed the city in 1871.
9
The Rookery
Built in 1887–1888 by architects Daniel H. Burnham and John Wellborn Root, the Rookery building, a historical landmark, is considered the oldest
standing high-rise building in Chicago. The curious name of the building is an allusion to the old City Hall (after the Great Chicago Fire, a building in
this location was used as an interim City Hall) and water tank buildings that occupied the site before the Rookery was built. Those structures were
nicknamed the “rookery” not only because a large population of Chicago’s pigeons had selected the area as a roosting area but also due to the
atmosphere of greed and corruption that the public felt characterized city hall and the politicians it housed. When the building was completed in
1888, the popular name stuck, and the rest, as they say, is history.