What's It Like To Live In Chicago's Loop?

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

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4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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A family, a dog owner and tenants of a men's hotel explain why the Loop offers a sense of community amid the hustle and bustle.

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0:00.0	When we're the...
0:03.3	Where's that...
0:05.2	Where's that story?
0:07.6	It's Curious City.
0:08.7	Where WBEZ answers your questions...
0:11.2	About Chicago, the region, and its people.
0:14.6	Michelle Passantino lives in Chicago's Dunning neighborhood
0:17.3	on the far western border of the city.
0:20.1	It's a residential area with manicured lawns and lots of baseball fields for Little League games.
0:25.4	So pretty much the opposite of the loop in the heart of downtown Chicago.
0:30.1	A place where the sidewalks are crowded with tourists and business people,
0:34.1	the noise from traffic lasts all day.
0:37.0	Like a lot of people, she knows, Michelle really only
0:39.5	comes to the loop for one reason, her job as an executive assistant. But occasionally I'll see
0:44.6	people maybe walking their dog or going for a jog, and I wonder, do these people live here?
0:49.6	So she asked Curia City, who actually lives in the loop? And why?
0:58.5	Because me personally, I don't see much of an appeal. It doesn't seem like a neighborhood type of place to live, and it's like a very expensive place to live.
1:03.7	Well, the cost of living is one thing. But as far as the appeal, a lot of people would disagree.
1:09.6	About 33,000 of them, in fact, that's how many people
1:12.6	live in the loop today. That's using the official city definition of the neighborhood, the area
1:17.4	bordered by the Chicago River to the north and west, and Roosevelt Road to the south. Since 1990,
1:23.9	the population of the loop has actually tripled, even as the city as a whole has lost population.
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