South Side Weekly: A Nice Overview of the Sloop's Past, Current and Future

18th Street Pedestrian Bridge (via South Side Weekly - Juliet Eldred)

A good read on the current state of the Sloop via South Side Weekly - although we're slightly biased since I was interviewed (South Side Weekly):

The scene is peaceful, bucolic—it’s hard to believe that it unfolds just blocks from the pulsing commercial center of Chicago. The South Loop, or “Sloop,” as it is commonly called, stretches from the Stevenson Expressway to Congress Parkway and from the lake to the Chicago River. The area has seen waves of affluence and decades of desolation, high culture and heavy crime over the last century. In the past two years, after suffering through the 2008 housing crash, a tight-knit community has begun to spread its roots in the Sloop, reflecting a desire among Chicagoans to live, once again, in a commercial center.