CHICAGO, March 4 (UPI) -- Oprah Winfrey is closing her Harpo Studios, where she filmed The Oprah Winfrey Show after moving the OWN network operation to West Hollywood.
"[Chicago has] been everything for me. I've spent more hours in this building than I have any other building on Earth. ... We were here when there was nothing but hoes and rats on the street, and now it's one of the hottest neighborhoods [in Chicago]," Winfrey told The Hollywood Reporter. "The time had come to downsize this part of the business and to move forward. It will be sad to say goodbye, but I look ahead with such a knowing that what the future holds is even more than I can see."