To me the Chicago Loop was always the portion of Interstate-94 encircling the innermost hub of central Chicago. A place where all major freeways in the Midwest intersect. A dreaded place to sit for up to three hours in traffic jams. When I looked it up though, there was a more technical definition for the tag. A quick check online showed me that in reality it was more than just the semi-circular boundary around a portion of the city.
There are seventy-seven districts in Chicago; the Loop being the financial and commercial district in the center of the downtown. It also includes the center of government with the Civic Center. The name the Loop originated from the looping route of the cable between the streets Wabash and Adams and again between Wells and Lake. The cable car has now been replaced with an elevated railway which greets shoppers with a deafening roar when they step out of Chicago's original and famed Marshall Fields Department store between Wabash and State St.
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