Downtown Chicago Now Has More Residents Than Before the Pandemic
- Loop’s population is estimated to have grown 9% since 2020
- Future of downtown will be more residential: Loop Alliance CEO
You wouldn’t know it from the empty streets on a Friday morning, but there are now more people living in downtown Chicago than before the pandemic.
The number of residents in the Loop — as the city’s central business district is known — grew by almost 9% since 2020, according to estimates from the Chicago Loop Alliance.