Chicago Board of Trade Review

One of the many skyscrapers of the Chicago city, with beautiful sculptures at the entrance of the building.

Sarcastic security officers near the messenger center

Classic 1950s style architecture. Guided tours and try to see the trading floor.

The Cere's restaurant has pretty good food, but people do not go here for the bar food, they go here for the drinks. They don't server Jack and coke, they serve Jack, with a can of coke on the side. The drinks are about $10, but you definitely get what you pay for! They definitely DO NOT water down any of their drinks.

ELegant building in the loop with one of the best examples of an art deco interior in the country. Observation deck to watch trading on weekdays. Simply great. Park in a ramp or remotely & use the subway or a cab to get in. Plenty to do in the area.

I have fun wherever I go, life is short and more when your age tells you that you are closer to the day of your death than to the day when you were born.

Really nice area to visit. Very clean and sanitary, also the people in the surrounding area are very friendly. I pass buy the building every day, and it's a pleasant sight!

I ve been a market junkie all my life and always wanted to see the CBOT, very pleased to have witnessed it in person. A beautiful building and in a nice piece of town, I would definitely recommend stopping here for a photo.

Proper gentlemen making Fair and honest price liquidity

Coffee shop with big screen blasting financial news is really awesome.

Needed to close a 50 lot of lean hog futures before contract expry, was able to unload these and then raised the bid on Aug corn just for fun. Thanks CBOT!

The Chicago Board of Trade Building is a skyscraper located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It stands at 141 W. Jackson Boulevard at the foot of the LaSalle Street canyon, in the Loop community area in Cook County. Built in 1930 and first designated a Chicago Landmark on May 4, 1977,the building was listed as a National Historic Landmark on June 2, 1978.[It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 16, 1978. Originally built for the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), it is now the primary trading venue for the derivatives exchange, the CME Group, formed in 2007 by the merger of the CBOT and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Stopped there today! Very beautiful building but the small convenient store off the Jackson Street side the merchant there is rude as heck! He doesn't know how to speak to people at all I well never buy anything else from his very small store! His quote is "he's been in the game a long time and he doesn't cheat people"...well he first needs to learn how to speak to people.!!

Great Chicago Architecture, inside with the Art Deco, and outside with the historic statues.

Great fun for the whole family. Many exhibits are interactive and young children enjoy as well as the older crowd. Extremely informative for not only the history of Chicago, but has information about current events. Though not one of the largest museums in Chicago.

When it's open for Open House Chicago, they just take into the gross, sweaty basement. They don't show you any of the cool architecture.

Stunning, imposing structure in an asymmetrical position with respect to the others. In front of you are skyscrapers left and right. Structure star of many films. Obligatory stop.

The building is gorgeous, but I was rather put off by the rudeness of the security guards.

I have spent what seems like a lifetime here. Historic site but depressing to be in it due to its dark and cold architecture.

A historic building with great significance today still.

Beautiful art deco style. Step in, enjoy the a architecture, and have a bite at the cafe.

Beautiful building with wonderful interior and exterior architecture.

This art-deco masterpiece is usually closed for public, but I got a chance to visit it from inside during Open House Chicago and saw the huge, secure vault, where they used to keep goods. One of the best buildings in the city.

Chicago commodity exchange that appears in "Batman Begins" and "Untouchable". Worth to go if you like movies.

Great architecture at the Chicago Board of Trade Building, 141 W Jackson Blvd, Chicago, IL 60604. It's worth just checking the building out so stop over and take the time.

I have been a member of the exchange since 1982. I love the architecture of the building both in and out.....come see the trading floor before they shut it down....we had 3 floors....we are down to only 13 pits and one floor.

Beautiful Art Deco building with amazing interior. You can get tours at the Chicago Architecture Foundation.

Ceres Cafe is in this building...best drinks in the City. Only the responsible need come the Drinks are Real! Frank is pretty dam cool as well.

Historic place and was fun to have our gala dinner on the now decommissioned open trading floor where they used to trade soybeans, corn, and other commodities.

Very professional security staff and all workers were very curious and friendly.

What an amazing place to see my first time in Chicago and this is where I went

If you want to visit a traditional yelling paper trading floor, it's gone. If you're a rich person, interested in monetizing farm labor and risk, probably a fine place to be.

Magnificent historical building. General visitors can only see the lobby on the second floor. The space next to the building has a symbolic sculpture and was cozy and good.

The building is amazing, the architecture is amazing. Nothing to do inside, really...I used the restroom though, which is worth a million dollars downtown...I mean, heck, the convenience stores dont have restrooms downtown, I even bought something, still no restroom...

The reason I "visited" here was that for 28 years I was an employee. I worked on the trading floor as a member of the CBOT Market Reporting staff. When CME and CBOT merged (2008) I was retained and finished out the rest of my years there (March 2018). I don't have enough room or time to tell of all the people I've known, all the market conditions I've worked through, all the world events I've witnessed here (I watched the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center September 11th, 2001 on giant monitors from the CBOT Financial Floor). I also witnessed the evolutionary decline of the "open outcry market", as it converted to an electronic on-line platform. It is now a "ghost town", a gigantic monument of a very important time in the history of commerce.