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The Auditorium Theatre is a music and performance venue located in the Auditorium Building at 50 E. Ida B. Wells Drive in Chicago, Illinois.Inspired by the Richardsonian Romanesque Style of architect Henry Hobson Richardson, the building was designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan and completed in 1889.
Wrigley Rooftops is a name for the sixteen rooftops of residential buildings which have bleachers or seating on them to view baseball games or other major events at Wrigley Field. Since 1914 Wrigley roofs have dotted the neighborhood of Wrigleyville around Wrigley Field, where the Chicago Cubs play Major League Baseball .
Vivid Seats was founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 2001 by Jerry Bednyak and Eric Vassilatos. [11] Vivid Seats has been invested in by two private equity companies, Vista Equity Partners in 2016 and GTCR in 2017. GTCR bought a majority stake [12] for $575 million. [13] Vivid Seats is a member of the Internet Association, which advocates for net ...
The company owns 18 luxury hotels, 17 of which are located in the United States and one of which is in Germany. [3] Through his investment firm, Cascade Investment, Bill Gates has purchased 1.74 million shares of Strategic Hotels & Resorts Inc.’s common stock at a total price of $21.45 million – totaling 9.8% of the company's shares. Gates ...
Great Northern Hotel (Chicago) H. Hyde Park House; L. La Salle Hotel; Lexington Hotel (Chicago) M. Morrison Hotel (Chicago) S. Sherman House Hotel; T. Tremont House ...
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 hotel was sold in 2017 to Shapack Partners and Gaw Capital for $61.5 million, which was considered an underwhelming sale price for the booming hotel market Chicago was experiencing at the time. [1] They hired Journal Hotels to run the hotel as their first Chicago property. [13] The hotel was renamed Ambassador Chicago. [2] [1]
[6] [7] The current hotel capacity is 383 guest rooms and 13 suites. The Hard Rock Hotel closed on December 1, 2017, [8] and reopened in 2018 as the St. Jane Chicago Hotel, [9] named after Nobel Peace Prize-winner and noted Chicagoan social activist Jane Addams. The hotel temporarily closed in early 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.