Chicago Board of Trade Building

The Chicago Board of Trade Building anchors the end of LaSalle Street with its dark, jagged limestone facade and the three-story bronze statue of Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture, perched at the peak. Built in nineteen thirty during the height of the Great Depression, the structure replaced an earlier Victorian home for the grain exchange. Arthur Cutten, a notorious grain speculator, famously watched the market from a private room inside, losing millions on a single afternoon when his wheat corner failed spectacularly.