Chicago: City of the Big Straddles
Paul L. Kasriel, Randall C. Merris
Chicago is a full-service financial center. In assessing the city's role in the national and international marketplace, it is useful to delineate two broad classes of financial services. One class contains those financial services of which Chicago is a major supplier and a market participant; the other, those services of which Chicago is the major supplier and the market maker.
