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Originally Posted by twister244
Speaking of upticks in numbers, do we have an idea of how foot traffic is in downtown compared to pre-Covid levels? I went to a comedy special at the Chicago Theater and State Street was packed on Friday evening. I don't go to the loop on a Friday/Saturday evening often but I was damn pleasantly surprised to see the amount of people out and about around 7 PM.
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I'm not surprised. I'm in the Loop for work 3 days a week and in various parts it has been pretty busy, even in non-tourist months. Q1 2023 foot traffic estimate was 120% more than Q1 2021 (i.e. double plus 20% on top). They didn't start tracking this until mid 2020 unfortunately.