 The 1885 building and trading pits were prominently featured in "The Pit", the second novel by Frank Norris in "The Epic of the Wheat" trilogy.Life on the trading floor of the Chicago Board of Trade is detailed in the nonfiction book "Leg the Spread" by Cari Lynn (2004).Trading operations have been used as scenes in movies such as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", and the streetscape in the LaSalle Street canyon is used in the movies "The Untouchables", "Road to Perdition", and "".