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title: What an AI agent reads on Chicago.com · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/r/chicago.com/agent-view?format=md
---

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# What an AI agent reads on Chicago.com

An assistant's crawler fetches the page once, without running JavaScript, and reads the text, the structured data and the links. Below is what it gets from [chicago.com](http://chicago.com/), taken from the copy the scanner kept.

5,436

characters of text without JavaScript

Organization

structured data for the business

0

of 3 AI crawlers turned away at the edge

 Text

## The words an agent gets

Title: chicago.com · language en. First 1,800 of 5,436 characters:

```
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```

 Facts

## What it can say about the business

| A business type in JSON-LD | Organization |
| Name | chicago.com |
| Telephone | no |
| Address | no |
| Opening hours | no |
| Menu or price list | nothing |
| Cuisine in structured data | no |
| JSON-LD blocks | 1 (Organization, WebSite) |

 Actions

## The links it would act on

No booking or ordering link found. An agent has nothing to act on.

Everything here comes from fetching the homepage once as a crawler. The [report](https://directindex.org/r/chicago.com) turns it into a score and a list of fixes, with code to paste.

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```json
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://directindex.org/#org","name":"The Direct Index","url":"https://directindex.org/","logo":"https://directindex.org/favicon.svg","email":"hello@directindex.org","founder":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https://directindex.org/#antonio","name":"Antonio Curado","sameAs":["https://x.com/ab_curado"]},"description":"Independent measurement of whether AI agents can find, read and act on a business's own website."},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://directindex.org/#site","url":"https://directindex.org/","name":"The Direct Index","publisher":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"},"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://directindex.org/scan?url={url}"},"query-input":"required name=url"}},{"@type":"WebAPI","name":"The Direct Index API","url":"https://directindex.org/openapi.json","documentation":"https://directindex.org/llms-full.txt","provider":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"}}]}
```