About the Community: South Loop
Home to some of Chicago's most historic neighborhoods, most beautiful lakefront parks and properties, and largest museums, the South Loop has been growing steadily for almost 50 years and shows no signs of slowing. In fact, it seems to be speeding up Ð the recent boom of residential development, restaurants, and bars make the South Loop one of Chicago's most up-and-coming addresses.
This is in addition to what has long attracted Chicagoans to the area. The huge Museum Campus features the world's largest aquarium, Shedd Aquarium and Oceanarium, the more than one million square feet of the Field Museum of Natural History, and the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum. The Campus is immediately adjacent to the expanse of Grant Park, often referred to as ÒChicago's front yardÓ and home to many outdoor festivals each year, including the Concert in the Park series and the famous Chicago Jazz Festival.
Only a few blocks west is the Chicago Landmark district of Printer's Row, once the seat of publishing in the Midwest, and now home to lofts, shopping, dining, and the annual Printer's Row Book Festival. And in the southeastern part of the neighborhood is Prairie Avenue, once home to the tycoons and philanthropists who shaped Chicago, and current home to Chicago's oldest and most stunning residential architecture.
The dining in the South Loop is some of the city's finest and most distinctive Ð old institutions like Harold's Chicken Shack sit alongside the exciting nouvelle cuisine offered by local favorites like Orange and Solo 1530. With so much activity and so much growth, the South Loop is a Chicago neighborhood you can't afford to miss.
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