Chicago's financial community treaded water for a while thismorning, then finally went under, shutting down trading floors andeventually evacuating office buildings.
The Chicago Board of Trade was the first exchange to halttrading, shutting down its financial futures pit at 9:45 a.m. afteropening at 7:20 a.m. Agricultural futures trading never opened.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange closed at 10:45 a.m., and theChicago Board Options Exchange shut down at 12:30 p.m.
By early afternoon, most employees and exchange representativeshad no idea when they would reopen.
Among the first Loop workers ordered to leave were those atChemical Futures and …
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