The downtown area is mostly high-rise businesses and is comprised of the one square mile of the Loop (so named because it is encircled by the Elevated train tracks). The Loop is bounded on the North and West by the Chicago River. North of the river is the one square mile River North...
In reality, these trucks were transporting everything from con- struction materials to produce to hordes of local Indians desperate for a means to get to work, but they moved at the speed of a dump truck laden with lead pipes. I was fascinated by minivans — seats removed — so packed ...