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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 Louis Vuitton store can be seen on the left. Oakbrook Center is a shopping center established in 1962 and located near Interstate 88 and Route 83 in Oak Brook, Illinois.It is the second largest shopping center in the Chicago metropolitan area by gross leasable area, only surpassed by Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, Illinois.
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.
John Burroughs Drake Jnr. (1872–1964) and his brother Tracy Drake were the developers and proprietors of the Chicago hotels, the Blackstone Hotel and Drake Hotel, he was the son of John Drake Snr., who was also a hotelier.
FILE - Commuters traverse New York's Times Square in front of the Nasdaq MarketSite, Wednesday, May 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
It was the third time that Drake had reached the final of the scholarship, having done so previously in both 1999 and 2000. [4] In 2003, Drake's on the Pond was awarded a Michelin star. [2] Drake left the restaurant shortly afterwards to become chef proprietor at Drake's, in Ripley, Surrey, purchasing the restaurant from Michel and Dorothy ...
The Drake Hotel is a hospitality venue on Queen Street West in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, near Parkdale.In addition to a 51-room boutique hotel, [1] there is a restaurant lounge, corner café with street-level patio, Sky Yard roof top patio, and the Drake Underground basement nightclub and live performance venue. [2]
Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants founder Bill Kimpton saved the iconic hotel in 1993 by forming an investment partnership that purchased the property for $22 million (equivalent to $46.4 million in 2023). [7] Another $9 million was invested to renovate the entire building inside and out and the hotel was renamed the Kimpton Sir Francis Drake Hotel.