Chicago Board of Trade Building

The Chicago Board of Trade is a Loop icon and a City of Chicago and US National Historic Landmark.

This tour takes you through all three architecturally distinct Board of Trade buildings. You'll see newly designed and renovated spaces, historical art and the massive traders’ vault.

Architects and Styles

Meet

141 W. Jackson Blvd., inside the building lobby

Discover the richly ornamented exterior, spectacular vault and soaring lobby of the original 1930 Art Deco design by Holabird and Root.

We’ll contrast the features of the main building with two Board of Trade additions: a Postmodern 1982 building with a towering atrium to the south by Murphy/Jahn Architects and a functional 1997 addition to the east by Fujikawa Johnson Gobel Architects.