Corporate photography at the Chicago Board of Trade Building

The Chicago Board of Trade Building is a forty five story Art Deco tower of 604 feet at 141 West Jackson Boulevard, closing the south end of the LaSalle Street canyon. Holabird & Root completed it in 1930 and it was the tallest building in Chicago until 1965, capped by John Storrs' faceless statue of Ceres. The Board of Trade itself was established in 1848 and is the world's oldest futures and options exchange. CME Group owns the building today and has had a trading floor here, about 300,000 square feet of it, since 2008. Cboe built trading floor and office space here as well, with pits for SPX and VIX options.

The building is owned by CME Group, whose trading floor has been here since 2008, and Cboe holds trading floor and office space in it. The surrounding block is the old financial spine of the city: the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago is opposite at 230 South LaSalle, and Northern Trust has been at 50 South LaSalle since 1905. The LaSalle Reimagined program is converting historic towers such as 135 South LaSalle and 111 West Monroe to apartments, with the first city backed units renting in September 2026.

A session here happens in your own suite, and access is what to plan first. This is a controlled access building with exchange operations inside, so visitor clearance, the dock or freight elevator window and any certificate of insurance have to be confirmed with building management well before the date. The trading floors are not part of a session and should not go into a brief. The session itself needs only a conference room of roughly eight by ten feet on your own floor. The Art Deco interiors and the LaSalle Street exterior are options, both subject to permission.

We photograph on site, in your own office. If your team is in this building, the notes below are what the day looks like. Nothing here is a claim to a past session in it, and no tenant named is a client unless it says so elsewhere on this site.