Chicago Board of Trade Building

This guide to the Chicago Board of Trade Building follows trader Scott Shellady, known on the floor for a cow-spotted jacket his father started as a joke in the 1960s, and the octagonal pits where hundreds of traders once shouted prices for six hours a day. You'll hear about the silent hand-signal language they built to survive the noise, from finger taps for multiples to a turned palm for a sale, and how some traders hired voice coaches to protect their voices. Look up at the faceless aluminum goddess Ceres crowning the tower, deliberately sculpted without features for a face nobody below was meant to see.