West Loop · Officials
West Loop elected officials
The 2023 Chicago ward map divides the West Loop among four wards, and no single one of them covers most of it. Measuring the City's official ward boundaries against the neighborhood boundary this site uses, Ward 34 takes the largest share at about 42% — Greektown and the blocks south and east — with Ward 27 close behind at about 40% across Fulton Market and the north. Ward 42 holds the riverfront edge and Ward 28 the southwestern corner. A sliver along Grand Avenue falls in Ward 1. Ward boundaries do not follow the neighborhood's, so to find the ward for a specific address use the City's find your ward and alderman lookup ↗.
The four wards
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Bill Conway Alderman, 34th Ward
The largest share of the West Loop — roughly the southern and eastern two-fifths of the neighborhood. It covers Greektown, the residential blocks around Mary Bartelme Park, Old St. Patrick's and Presidential Towers, and the Jefferson and Clinton blocks running east toward the river.
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Walter Burnett III Alderman, 27th Ward
The northern West Loop — Fulton Market, the western half of Randolph Restaurant Row, and the blocks along Lake and Washington west of Halsted, plus Union Park, Skinner Park and the West Loop library on Aberdeen.
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Brendan Reilly Alderman, 42nd Ward
The northeastern edge of the West Loop along the Chicago River — Riverside Plaza and the Clinton Street corridor around the French Market, in the strip between the river and the Kennedy Expressway.
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Jason C. Ervin Alderman, 28th Ward
The southwestern corner of the neighborhood, where the West Loop meets Ashland Avenue and the Eisenhower Expressway. The smallest of the four shares, but a real one — those blocks contact the 28th Ward office, not the 27th or 34th.
Phone numbers, office addresses, and office hours change. WLV links to each ward's official website for current contact details rather than embedding them here — that lets a single source of truth update naturally. File a note via corrections if a ward boundary or alderperson changes.