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  2. Category:Demolished hotels in Chicago - Wikipedia

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  3. Edgewater Beach Hotel - Wikipedia

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    This roadway was built on landfill in the area that had been the private beach for the hotel. While new public beaches serving the Edgewater neighborhood were eventually created, they did not replace the hotel's own beach. After the hotel was cut-off from the lake by the new drive, a swimming pool was added in 1953. In 1960, in order to compete ...

  4. Chicago Beach Hotel - Wikipedia

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    The hotel was built in 1892 [1] by Warren Leland [2] and was one of many speculative hotels built to accommodate the hordes of tourists drawn by the upcoming Columbian Exposition of 1893. [1] It contained 450 rooms, with 175 bathrooms. [3] The property extended to Lake Michigan. [4] The building resembled the Hyde Park Hotel and probably shared ...

  5. Shaved ice - Wikipedia

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    In Latin America shaved ice desserts have influences from North American cultures, in many of these locations the Spanish name is either raspado, or its variations; raspa, raspao, raspadinha (raspar is Spanish for "scrape"; hence raspado means "scraped", referring to the ice, therefore also meaning shaved), or granizado, granizada, granizo (from granizo, meaning hail stone).

  6. Riverview Park (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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    Riverview Park was an amusement park in Chicago, Illinois, which operated from 1904 to 1967.It was located on 74 acres (30 hectares) bound on the south by Belmont Avenue, on the east by Western Avenue, on the north by Lane Tech College Prep High School, and on the west by the North Branch of the Chicago River. [2]

  7. Virgin Hotels Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Chicago Tribune's Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic, Blair Kamin, praised the incorporation of various wildlife into the decor and numerous elements of the rehab resulting from the alliance of real estate developers and historic preservationists, but made it clear that Virgin Hotels Chicago is not the Four Seasons Hotel Chicago or Ritz ...

  8. Eastwood by the Lake - Wikipedia

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    Eastwood By The Lake, formerly known as Eastwood Beach Apartment Hotel, [1] [2] is a condominium and apartment building in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is the oldest known residential hotel built in Chicago during the twentieth century. [ 3 ]

  9. Sauganash Hotel - Wikipedia

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    Sauganash Hotel (originally Eagle Exchange Tavern) was a hotel regarded as the first hotel in Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1831, the hotel was located at Wolf Point in the present-day Loop community area at the intersection of the north, south and main branches of the Chicago River .