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Ok, I know this isn’t the point of the article, but I can’t resist yelling at clouds. Where did Bloomberg come up with this idea of an “East Loop” in Chicago?
by jlund-molfese 2y ago
Ok, I know this isn’t the point of the article, but I can’t resist yelling at clouds.
Where did Bloomberg come up with this idea of an “East Loop” in Chicago? There’s no such thing as the East Loop. There’s West Loop (west of the loop), South Loop, and then you’ve got the actual Loop, which is the CBD. East Loop would be in the middle of Lake Michigan, and real estate prices have never been very high there.
There is the New Eastside, which surrounds Lakeshore East, but it’s part of the Loop.
- TeaBrain 2y ago"East Loop" threw me for a loop too. I was wondering whether anyone would mention that exact thing. I don't think the author was even sure of their use of it, as they pivoted to "Central Loop", which was also a little perplexing.
- seanicus 2y agoOn the upside this error indicates that the writer just doesn't know Chicago, instead of the increasingly common issue of articles being written by (de)generative ai