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Drake Hotel (lower right) and the East Lake Shore Drive District from Oak Street Beach. According to local legend, John Drake (1826–1895) (the father of this hotel's founders) was standing with a hotel owner watching the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The owner, seeing his hotel threatened by the flames, offered to sell it for any price.
The Blackstone Hotel is a historic 290-foot (88 m) 21-story hotel on the corner of Michigan Avenue and Balbo Drive in the Michigan Boulevard Historic District in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. Built between 1908 and 1910, it is on the National Register of Historic Places.
It was a replacement for the Pacific Hotel, which had been built in 1871 (also designed by Boyington), only to burn in the fire later that year. [3] Drake hosted "Great Game Dinners" featuring exotic cuisines at this hotel. [2] These dinners were a Chicago social institution for more than 50 years. [2] Newspapers devoted 4 inches to its menu ...
Drake celebrated his 34th birthday recently, and, in typical Drake fashion, the event spawned a massive meme-worthy moment. This time, it’s the rapper’s appetite that has fans freaking out.
We were lucky enough to have the full 'Defying Gravi-Tea' experience. The Plaza Hotel’s ‘Popular’ Wicked-Themed Afternoon Tea Is Just as Magical as You’d Dream Skip to main content
Galleries Maurice Sternberg is Chicago's oldest continually operating art gallery, founded in 1945. [1]The gallery was founded by Maurice Sternberg and Judith Sternberg in the arcade of the Drake Hotel.
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Tracy C. Drake (1864–1939) and his brother John Drake Jnr. were the developers and proprietors of the Blackstone Hotel and Drake Hotel, [2] which are both located along Michigan Avenue in Chicago, IL. The former is located in the Chicago Landmark Historic Michigan Boulevard District and the latter along the Magnificent Mile.