The West Loop: The End of the Beat Era

"When they close the I beam and the hate and put in a baby gap, that was pretty much the end of the San Francisco beat era," he says. "So if you're sick of being inside high rises with private equity firms come to the West Loop and hang out in an old warehouse with us." The line will be 300 people long when Banchi opens its new location at Randolph and Sangamon.