BEg2 ch 27 Trading in Chicago

[Michael Bailey]

Arriving in Chicago, they promptly got a tour down memory lane, which for
Horst was the LaSalle Street canyon, his first and oldest home turf,

https://www.chipublib.org/blogs/post/chicagos-la-salle-street/


https://www.architecture.org/learn/resources/buildings-of-chicago/building/chicago-board-of-trade-building/

“where he’d been one of those handjiving adventurers who dared the pit
every trading day. Started at the Merc trading three-month Eurodollar
futures, both for clients and for himself, wearing a custom trader’s jacket
with tastefully muted green and magenta stripes and a three-letter name tag
pinned to it.”

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/01/02/-you-wont-believe-the-ohare-play-trade-done-by-chicago-traders-during-their-eighties-heyday-.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/25/business/dealbook/as-silence-falls-on-chicago-trading-pits-a-working-class-portal-also-closes.html


After the pits closed around three in the afternoon, he shifted to civvies
and walked over to the Chicago Board of Trade and checked in at the Ceres
Cafe.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/dining/drink/ct-food-ceres-cafe-chicago-downtown-bar-eddie-johnson-police-chief-20191203-wsccyyb3yjbofg7grl77kguhwa-story.html


http://www.cerescafechicago.com