La Salle Street was once Chicago’s undisputed corridor of power, with nearly a mile of major banks, financial institutions and blue-chip law firms lined up cheek-to-jowl between Jackson Street and Wacker Drive.
But some of La Salle’s might has been diluted in recent years as many of its institutions have decamped the street for new high-rise office buildings in the West Loop and along the riverfront on Wacker Drive.
