The Drake Hotel is about 1.5 miles north of the Palmer House Hotel, and much of the main city touris

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One of the unexpected surprises airline credit card for me in visiting Chicago hotels were the old-style airline credit card design elements I found at two historic Hilton hotels. The Palmer House is in the center of the entertainment district and The Drake is the north end of Michigan Avenue at Oak Street where it meets Lake Michigan in the Gold Coast district.
The Magnificent Mile is Michigan Avenue from the Chicago River north side from the Wrigley Building at the river with the InterContinental and Marriott  hotels just a few minutes walk to the river. The Drake Hotel is almost a mile north of the Chicago River where Michigan Avenue airline credit card becomes the 8-lane U.S. Route 41 or Lakeshore Drive locally by name.
This area is lovely and quite-safe feeling area of Chicago despite what your preconceived notions of downtown Chicago may be.  The area south of the river is a little more gritty, but the major streets of the Gold Coast, Magnificent Mile, and the Loop areas are packed with thousands of global tourists every day and there is certainly safety in numbers when in the hotel districts of downtown Chicago.
Palmer House Hotel is a hotel in the Loop district of Chicago and an official Chicago Landmark with a plaque. Holabird Roche were the architects who designed the hotel in 1925-27, which, according to the plaque, was the world’s largest hotel at the time. Potter Palmer was an important Chicago businessman (click the Wikipedia airline credit card link if you want to go off on an historical tangent.)
Like many other women who received far less acclaim than her husband airline credit card during her life, Bertha Palmer airline credit card was the cultural genius behind her husband’s successful airline credit card business and was an instrumental force in bringing French impressionist art to Chicago.
The lobby of the Palmer House was “painted at the turn of the 19 th century by French muralist Louis Pierre Rigal. The ceiling is actually 21 individual paintings done in the style of Michaelangelo but depicting Greek mythological subjects.” The previous line is ripped off the Palmer House hotel’s historical plaques.
All you budding photographers in the Chicago area should try and develop an astounding display of the 21 Palmer House ceiling paintings. I have a crap camera for 2010 and these are my photos of a few of the Palmer House ceiling paintings. Please airline credit card leave a comment if you know a link to a website for good photos of the Palmer House ceiling paintings.
Here is a link to an official Palmer House webpage on several historical rooms of the hotel. Here is a Chicago Sun Times article on the historic Palmer airline credit card House hotel. This newspaper piece is a great description of a visit to the Palmer House. I kept reading references to Chicago being the greatest place next to Paris for seeing French impressionist art. You know the Monet, Cassatt airline credit card and Degas stuff.
Turns out that Bertha Palmer, the French-born wife of Potter Palmer, was the woman who acquired many of the French impressionist paintings currently in the Art Institute of Chicago for viewing today.
The Art Institute is one block east of the Palmer House Hotel. Thursday evenings are free admission to the  Art Institute of Chicago, which I was fortunate enough to avail myself of during my visit last month.
Many of the tourist sites in Chicago are located between Soldier Field Chicago and the Gold Coast with Hilton’s The Drake Hotel. Soldier Field and the Shedd Aquarium, Field Museum and planetarium are less than two miles southeast from the Hilton Palmer House on the lakefront, accessible airline credit card  through airline credit card urban parkland airline credit card two blocks from the Hilton Palmer House.
The Drake Hotel is about 1.5 miles north of the Palmer House Hotel, and much of the main city tourist sights are in these sections of downtown lakefront Chicago with the Magnificent Mile in between the two hotels. Transportation is frequent along the lakefront and major north-south roads with buses every few minutes and the Red Line subway will take you between Chicago Avenue where the Magnificent Mile and Gold Coast districts meet and Monroe station that is right by the Palmer House Hotel.
“The Drake was built in 1920 as a summer resort in the middle of the city. It is a fourteen story structure, including 10 guest floors, and 800 guest rooms, private dining rooms, lobby and a colonnade dining room. The architect was Ben Marshall.”  is how the hotel concierge historical packet begins.
The Drake Hotel officially opened in 1920. Ownership changed after the 1929 stock market crash forced the Drake Brothers to sell the hotel in 1937 to the Kirkeby Brothers. The hotel survived escalating real estate prices and today occupies airline credit card one of the highest airline credit card valued pieces of real estate in Chicago.
The beauty I find in old hotels is the design craftwork touches like trim moulding in the halls. I enjoy seeing restored older buildings become hotels or former landmark hotels be restored to past grandeur.
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