Loop

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The Loop is Chicago’s central business district and downtown core, known for its dense cluster of skyscrapers, cultural institutions, and historic elevated train system.

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form Occurrences
Loop Elevated 1
Loop Post Office 1
Loop elevated 1

Statements (102)

Predicate Object
instanceOf central business district
downtown neighborhood
neighborhood of Chicago
borderedBy Chicago River
Lake Michigan
borderedByStreet Lake Street
North Michigan Avenue
surface form: Michigan Avenue

Roosevelt Road
Wacker Drive
country United States of America
surface form: United States
hasAreaType high-density urban core
hasCoordinateRegion Downtown Chicago area
surface form: Downtown Chicago
hasCulturalInstitution Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago Cultural Center
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Goodman Theatre
Lyric Opera of Chicago
hasEducationalInstitution Columbia College Chicago (downtown campus)
DePaul University
surface form: DePaul University Loop Campus

Robert Morris University Illinois (former)
Roosevelt University
hasFunction cultural center
financial center
government center
tourist destination
transportation hub
hasGovernmentBody Chicago City Hall
surface form: City Hall of Chicago

Cook County Building
Dirksen Federal Building
Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse
Richard J. Daley Center
hasHistoricDistrict Loop Retail Historic District
Printers Row
hasLandmark Art Institute of Chicago
Auditorium Building
Buckingham Fountain
Chicago Board of Trade Building (original)
surface form: Chicago Board of Trade Building

Chicago Cultural Center
Chicago Riverwalk
Chicago Theatre
Daley Plaza
Federal Center Plaza
Grant Park
Harold Washington Library Center
Marquette Building
Merchandise Mart
Michigan Avenue streetwall
Millennium Park
State Street
The Rookery Building
Willis Tower
hasMajorStation Adams/Wabash station
Chicago Union Station
surface form: Chicago Union Station (adjacent)

Washington/Wabash station
surface form: Clark/Lake station

Jackson station
LaSalle Street Station
LaSalle/Van Buren station
Lake station
Millennium Station
Monroe station
Ogilvie Transportation Center (adjacent)
Quincy Center station
surface form: Quincy station

State/Lake station
Van Buren Street Metra station
Washington station
Washington/Wabash station
hasPark Grant Park
Millennium Park
hasPublicArt Cloud Gate
Crown Fountain
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Picasso sculpture at Daley Plaza
hasSkyscraper 150 North Riverside (adjacent area)
200 South Wacker Drive
311 South Wacker Drive
Aon Center
Chase Tower
Federal Center Plaza
surface form: Franklin Center

One Prudential Plaza
Two Prudential Plaza
Willis Tower
hasTransportationSystem CTA Blue Line
CTA Brown Line
CTA Green Line
Orange Line
surface form: CTA Orange Line

CTA Pink Line
CTA Red Line
Chicago "L"
Loop elevated
isDowntownCoreOf Chicago, Illinois, United States
surface form: Chicago
knownFor cultural institutions
dense cluster of skyscrapers
historic architecture
historic elevated train system
locatedIn Chicago, Illinois, United States
surface form: Chicago
locatedInAdministrativeEntity Cook County, Illinois
surface form: Cook County

Illinois
namedAfter elevated railway loop
partOf Chicago metropolitan area
timeZone Central Time Zone
UTCOffset UTC−06:00
UTCOffsetDST UTC−05:00

Referenced by (18)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Near West Side borders Loop
this entity surface form: Loop Post Office
Aon Center neighborhood Loop
this entity surface form: Loop elevated
CTA Brown Line terminus Loop
CTA Pink Line terminus Loop
Orange Line terminus Loop
subject surface form: Orange Line (CTA)
this entity surface form: Loop Elevated