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The Congress Plaza Hotel is a hotel on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, across from Grant Park. Opened by R.H. Southgate just before the 1893 World’s Fair, [1] the hotel has hosted numerous US Presidents and a wide range of political and cultural events. The hotel is frequently claimed to be one of the most haunted buildings in Chicago. [2] [3] [4]
This is a list of motels.A motel is lodging designed for motorists, and usually has a parking area for motor vehicles. Entering dictionaries after World War II, the word motel, coined in 1925 as a portmanteau of motor and hotel or motorists' hotel, referred initially to a type of hotel consisting of a single building of connected rooms whose doors faced a parking lot and, in some circumstances ...
Pages in category "Hotels in Chicago" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Ambassador East; B.
The hotel has a multi-level conference center which includes a 25,000-square-foot (2,300 m 2) ballroom, and 85,000 square feet (7,900 m 2) of meeting space. The conference center has been home to such events as the 40th , 49th , 58th , 70th and 80th World Science Fiction Conventions in 1982, 1991, 2000, 2012, and 2022 respectively.
The hotel opened in 1921. The brick building features extensive terra cotta ornamentation, including gargoyle griffins on some of the top corners. The hotel was the first high-rise building in Uptown. The Chicago Cubs and visiting teams that played the Cubs stayed in the hotel; [2] the building was also a popular site for weddings and dances. [3]
The Virgin Hotels Chicago (formerly Old Dearborn Bank Building or 203 North Wabash Avenue) is a historic building in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, that has been converted from use as an office building to use as a hotel run via a mobile app-based business model.
The Real Hotel Company; Rica Hotels – purchased by Scandic Hotels in 2014 [2] Royal Inns of America; Shoney's Inn – defunct American motel chain; Stakis Hotels; Starwood; Statler Hotels; Summerfield Suites; Susse Chalet; Swallow Hotels; Tage Inn; Temple Hotels; Trust Houses Ltd; Trusthouse Forte; United Hotels Company of America; Van Noy ...
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 .