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Radio Extra: Harpo Studios in West Loop To Close For Good in December

By  Jon Hansen and Stephanie Lulay | March 4, 2015 3:00pm 

 Oprah's Harpo Studios put the West Loop on the map, but Google could make the neighborhood Chicago's technology/foodie hub.
Oprah's Harpo Studios put the West Loop on the map, but Google could make the neighborhood Chicago's technology/foodie hub.
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DNAinfo/ Mark Konkol

WEST LOOP — Oprah Winfrey won't renew a lease on the Harpo Studios lot in the West Loop, Harpo officials confirmed Tuesday.

The longtime home to The Oprah Winfrey Show and many other TV shows will instead close in December, Harpo Productions officials said in a statement. Harpo's move from Chicago to a new state-of-the-art studio in West Hollywood comes after the OWN Network moved to the new space on The Lot in California.

On this DNAinfo Radio Extra, Stephanie Lulay says the move is no surprise:

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