It’s a wrap for Harpo Studios in Chicago. The facility, which Oprah Winfrey opened in 1990 to house her talk show empire, helped turn Chicago into a bustling television center and the West Loop ...

Harpo Studios, the West Loop production facility that became the heart of Oprah Winfrey's Chicago entertainment enterprise, will shutter at year-end, largely jettisoning its remaining 200 employees.

Demolition of Oprah Winfrey’s former Harpo Studios on the Near West Side began Monday, clearing the way for McDonald’s new corporate headquarters to be constructed on the site by spring 2018.

Harpo Studios in Chicago was the home of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" for 21 years. Oprah Winfrey is selling Harpo Studios to a developer, but the studio will remain on the property for another two years.

Harpo will be out before the end of its two-year lease with real estate developer Sterling Bay Cos., which bought the buildings housing Harpo Studios in April 2014. Advertisement ...

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By year’s end, Winfrey’s Chicago-based Harpo Studios will close its doors, with the 26-year-old company’s productions transitioning to OWN headquarters in Los Angeles.

“Harpo Productions is a world-class production company in Chicago and will continue on after ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ sunsets,” Winfrey said.

It’s a wrap for Harpo Studios in Chicago.The facility, which Oprah Winfrey opened in 1990 to house her talk show empire, helped turn Chicago into a bustling television center and the West Loop ...