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The Sofitel Chicago Magnificent Mile, formerly named the Sofitel Chicago Water Tower, is a hotel in Gold Coast neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. [1] It is operated by the Sofitel hotel chain. The hotel was designed by French architect Jean-Paul Viguier .
Showboat Mardi Gras Casino opened on April 18, 1997. [2] In 1998, Harrah's Entertainment bought Showboat, Inc. and renamed the property as Harrah's East Chicago.Harrah's later sold it to Resorts International Holdings, and the casino's name was changed, along with the street name to 777 Resort Blvd (similar to the addresses used for some Harrah's branded casinos: 777 Harrah's Blvd).
[2] [3] The building was designated a Chicago Landmark on May 29, 1998. [4] When the Allerton Hotel first opened, it had fourteen floors of small apartment-style rooms for men and six similar floors for women, with a total of 1,000 rooms. The hotel also boasted social events, gold, sports leagues, a library, solarium, and an in-house magazine. [5]
Sixteen was designed by Joe Valerio, whose previous credits included the Garmin flagship store on the Magnificent Mile. [4] Valerio's design had to work within spatial constraints determined by the tower's architects, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, leaving him to deal with complications stemming from a variety of column shapes — some square, some round, and others rectangular.
The casino complex will be constructed alongside the Chicago River near the Chicago Avenue Bridge (pictured). In April 2021, Lightfoot announced the beginning of the bidding process for the city's "casino-resort". [1] She stated that proposals must include plans for a 500-room hotel, meeting space, restaurants, bars and entertainment venues. [1]
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 Peninsula Chicago is a hotel located at the intersection of East Superior Street and North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. The hotel is part of The Peninsula Hotels group based in Hong Kong. The Peninsula Hotel group's parent Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, who already owned 92.5% of the Chicago property's shares, purchased the ...
The Terrace, which opened on June 25, 2009, [58] has views of the Chicago River and Lake Michigan as well as Navy Pier's seasonal Wednesday and Saturday evening fireworks, and was designed for outdoor or "al fresco" dining. [64] Rebar—the hotel bar on the mezzanine level—opened on April 18, 2008. [65]