In the Central Loop, which includes State Street, the vacancy rate fell to 23.1 percent at the end of 2021, from 26.1 percent six months earlier, brokerage Stone Real Estate found. Vacancies in the Loop hit a record 27.4 percent this year.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Loop vacancy rate is now 30 percent and rising — this is a sad end for what was once the greatest retail street in America