About

About West Loop Vibe

Edited by Mohammad Saleem. Hand-tended since April 2023.

Mohammad Saleem is a West Loop resident who built this site to make the neighborhood easier to know for the people who live, work, and visit here. He keeps it deliberately quiet: every fact is sourced and cited — built from City of Chicago open data and a handful of trusted Chicago publications when an opinion or roundup is useful. The result is a tended index of what's here, kept fresh each week.

A small, hand-tended guide to the West Loop neighborhood of Chicago. It tracks 1,967 active businesses, 14 upcoming events, 8 named sub-areas, 10 CTA L stations, and 62 historical closures — all pulled from public data and refreshed each week.

Sources, methodology, and corrections

Every fact on the site is pulled from a verifiable public source. The build refuses to ship without a citation on every record. Three pages document how that works:

• Sources → Every dataset and publication West Loop Vibe draws from — what each one provides, refresh cadence, dataset IDs, and licensing.
• Methodology → The full editorial process — citation rule, refresh cadence, schema strategy, closure mechanism, and what the site deliberately doesn't do.
• Corrections → Running log of business closures and stale-OpenStreetMap records discovered during enrichment, plus how to report something wrong.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to count aggregate page views — which sections of the site are useful, which businesses neighbors look up most, that kind of thing. This helps us decide what to build next. We don't sell or share visitor data, and we don't run ads.

Thanks for stopping by. If you live here, work here, or visit — hope this makes the neighborhood a little easier to know.