{"type":"city","city":"Chicago","citySlug":"chicago-illinois","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/united-states/illinois/chicago-illinois","description":"Steel and stone have always mattered here in a way they don't quite elsewhere — Chicago's relationship with its own built environment is almost competitive, a city perpetually in argument with itself about what a building should do. That anxiety produces extraordinary hotels. The Langham Chicago occupies the former IBM Building, a 1971 Mies van der Rohe tower on the river, and the pairing of that Miesian restraint with Richmond International's interiors creates something genuinely unresolved in the best sense: modernist bones dressed with considered softness. A few blocks north, the Park Hyatt Chicago works a similar tension inside Lucien Lagrange's Water Tower Place-adjacent tower on Michigan Avenue, while the Peninsula — the portfolio's most expensive address — commands its Magnificent Mile corner with the kind of institutional confidence that makes the street feel organized around it. The St. Regis Chicago, in Lakeshore East, brought Jeanne Gang's Studio Gang-designed tower to the hotel conversation in 2020, the building's faceted, staggered geometry making it one of the more architecturally serious new structures to enter Chicago hospitality in years.\n\nAway from the lakefront axis, the city's westward expansion into formerly industrial neighborhoods has produced a different register entirely. The Hoxton in Fulton Market arrived as that district was mid-transformation — meatpacking heritage absorbed into tech offices and chef-driven restaurants — and its approachable rates relative to the room quality reflect a positioning that is less about destination luxury than neighborhood integration. Soho House Chicago, settled into an 1886 red-brick warehouse in the West Loop, plays the same industrial-adaptive hand with more deliberate curation, while Nobu Hotel on Randolph Street trades on its restaurant's pull to anchor a design-forward address that might otherwise struggle in the company of its neighbors.\n\nGold Coast consolidates the older money. The Waldorf Astoria, the Four Seasons, the Ritz-Carlton, the Viceroy, and Thompson Chicago cluster within a few blocks on and around Rush Street, each occupying a slightly different architectural moment and positioning — the Viceroy (Roman and Williams, 2017) the sharpest design statement among them, with its jewel-box interiors rewiring a 1920s tower into something wholly contemporary. For travelers drawn less to the lake and the Magnificent Mile than to the grain of the city itself — Wicker Park's two-flats, the Loop's beaux-arts banking halls, the warehouses of the near West Side — The Robey in a 1929 art deco corner building, or the Kimpton Gray inside the 1894 New York Life Building on LaSalle, offer architecture as genuine context rather than backdrop.","provider":{"name":"PressBeyond","url":"https://pressbeyond.com","description":"PressBeyond provides AI-optimized hotel content with a consistent 5-image structure across its entire portfolio. 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The building's grey granite facade — visible in the images with its dark-framed floor-to-ceiling glazing and projecting steel canopy — carries the composed authority of a mid-rise that knows its neighborhood without deferring to it. Simeone Deary Design Group handled the interiors across the hotel's 247 rooms and 21 floors, working with a vocabulary that shifts register depending on where you are in the building.\n\nThe lobby establishes the tone: dark-stained exposed ceiling beams, wide-plank oak flooring, and a freestanding bookcase centered on a large convex gilt mirror anchor a lounge furnished with caramel leather armchairs and charcoal upholstered cubes with brass welting — midcentury references worn lightly rather than quoted directly. The bar and restaurant space, carved from a double-height atrium with exposed brick columns and a glass skylight running its length, introduces living green walls and jewel-toned tufted banquettes in olive and burgundy velvet, the warmth deliberately more nocturnal than the lobby's daytime clarity. Guest rooms move between two modes: higher floors offer curved sofas and cognac-toned upholstery against panoramic city views at dusk, while standard rooms keep things crisper — linen-wrapped drum shades, lacquered teal credenzas, stripe-pattern wool rugs — precise without feeling corporate.","snippet":"Thompson Chicago's grey granite facade and Simeone Deary interiors blend midcentury references with contemporary Gold Coast restraint.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts exploring Chicago's Gold Coast","vibe":"Midcentury-modern · composed","highlights":["Grey granite mid-rise with floor-to-ceiling glazing on Chestnut Street","Lobby with dark-stained beams, oak flooring, and gilt convex mirror","Restaurant with double-height atrium, exposed brick, and living green walls"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$314","pricePerNightExclTax":"$314","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uha2n039315xy2dz2azu01713363269528_b175d74a-87db-4dd2-a391-7924485092d7.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Thompson Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Thompson Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Thompson Chicago captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhfxp04at15xy5atl2dhd1713363270984_cbff178b-dc65-4da6-8fad-194e21ba7db4.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Thompson Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Thompson Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Thompson Chicago, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhlp305cj15xy32gc2ecc1713363271616_e35f3051-e44c-4184-be25-fb5f798b81e8.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Thompson Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Thompson Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Thompson Chicago — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhrk606e915xy0hmm87hr1713363272403_03e4ce81-f06f-494b-b10a-44d0db2410ef.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Thompson Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Thompson Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Thompson Chicago, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhxcg07fz15xyastcfwtz1713363273088_81373c7c-3643-4511-826d-8fc71c1959a8.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Thompson Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Thompson Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Thompson Chicago — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Pendry Chicago","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/united-states/illinois/chicago-illinois/pendry-chicago","city":"Chicago","cityHeader":"Chicago • Chicago Loop • SPLURGE","neighborhood":"Chicago Loop","loyaltyProgram":"I Prefer","designSummary":"Few Chicago skyscrapers carry as much chromatic drama as the Carbide and Carbon Building on Michigan Avenue — its dark polished granite base, terracotta-trimmed tower, and gold-leafed crown designed by Daniel and Richard Burnham in 1929, reportedly inspired by a champagne bottle wrapped in dark foil. Pendry Chicago, which took over the lower floors of this 40-storey Art Deco landmark when it opened in 2021, had the unusual task of matching an exterior this vivid without competing with it. The 164-room hotel was fitted into the building by interior designer Gary Handel, with Pendry's in-house team shaping the guest experience around a dialogue between the tower's Jazz Age bones and a more contemporary residential sensibility.\n\nThe rooms balance those competing loyalties well — ornate plasterwork ceilings and deep-set original window frames preserved intact, set against charcoal oak headboards, brass-trimmed millwork, and lacquered red credenzas that give certain configurations a mid-century graphic sharpness. The bar leans into darkness: black marble floors, fluted walnut panelling, and a herringbone brass screen behind the backbar create an atmosphere closer to a private club than a hotel lounge. The ground-floor café takes the opposite approach entirely, a double-height glass pavilion wrapped in hand-painted botanical murals, Thonet-style bentwood chairs, and sage green cabinetry that turns the corner of Michigan Avenue into something unexpectedly garden-like.","snippet":"Pendry occupies the landmark 1929 Carbide and Carbon Building, preserving Art Deco details alongside mid-century interiors.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts and Art Deco collectors","vibe":"Art-Deco-contemporary · sophisticated","highlights":["1929 Carbide and Carbon Building with gold-leafed crown","Rooms preserve original plasterwork and window frames","Ground-floor café with hand-painted botanical murals"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$323","pricePerNightExclTax":"$323","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uha3d039915xyckby62gb1713354792003_a458df67-0fb9-4f8c-937a-fcb5808a67d8.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Pendry Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Pendry Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Pendry Chicago captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhfyq04az15xygo4jyp8y1713354792633_5ac09c2a-ce85-49f3-a41e-d93465be8329.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Pendry Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Pendry Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Pendry Chicago, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhlpm05co15xy61rmkv461713354793302_928b7a45-b713-4db0-a926-661f48e4d73e.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Pendry Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Pendry Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Pendry Chicago — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhrlj06eh15xytxmdawlw1713354794056_14dcd680-6089-4196-99c4-c2c8b72369d6.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Pendry Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Pendry Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Pendry Chicago, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhxcn07g715xyvmjotv6j1713354794795_db5c8d5b-0325-42fe-ae0b-97134b8c7db2.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Pendry Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Pendry Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Pendry Chicago — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Hotel EMC2, Autograph Collection","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/united-states/illinois/chicago-illinois/hotel-emc2-autograph-collection","city":"Chicago","cityHeader":"Chicago • Streeterville • SPLURGE","neighborhood":"Streeterville","loyaltyProgram":"Marriott Bonvoy®","designSummary":"The collision of art and science — spelled out literally in the hotel's name, EMC2, Einstein's mass-energy equation recast as a design philosophy — gives this Streeterville property its animating idea, and architect Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture executed it with conviction. Opened in 2017 within a purpose-built thirteen-storey tower clad in deep blue-grey metal panels, Hotel EMC2 Autograph Collection announces itself at street level through a facade inlaid with faceted geometric brass forms and a large-scale painted mural, the entrance canopy carried on angular steel struts that bring structural expressionism right to the sidewalk.\n\nInside, the 195 rooms developed by Simeone Deary Design Group set Calacatta marble shower enclosures behind steel-framed glass partitions, the bathroom opening directly into the sleeping area in a loft-like gesture that keeps the city views — Chicago's mid-rise Streeterville grid visible through floor-to-ceiling windows — in constant conversation with the room. Headboard murals drawn from expressionist and surrealist traditions, oval indigo rugs, brass trumpet-form floor lamps, and a circular vanity in dark walnut give each room the atmosphere of a collector's study rather than a standard hotel chamber. The ground-floor restaurant, Arami-inflected in its double-height volume, lines one wall with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves stacked with antiquarian volumes, suspends copper cookware above a white marble open kitchen counter, and places a full bar along the opposite run — a space that earns its own destination status independent of the rooms above.","snippet":"Chicago hotel named for Einstein's equation, designed by Hartshorne Plunkard with expressionist interiors and a library-lined restaurant.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts and art collectors","vibe":"Art-meets-science · architectural","highlights":["Hartshorne Plunkard-designed tower with geometric brass facade","Rooms by Simeone Deary with expressionist headboard murals","Ground-floor restaurant with antiquarian library and open kitchen"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$325","pricePerNightExclTax":"$325","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhafh03bi15xy524hmpe81713352624021_80d202a0-d1ee-4c73-8656-996a4a0045f0.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Hotel EMC2, Autograph Collection — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Hotel EMC2, Autograph Collection · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Hotel EMC2, Autograph Collection captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhg9n04d715xyybh1rjru1713352625599_afa1712c-c644-429e-bd06-12e305c9ac2f.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Hotel EMC2, Autograph Collection — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Hotel EMC2, Autograph Collection · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Hotel EMC2, Autograph Collection, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhm1m05ev15xy9fc1k9ac1713352626387_bf429e17-c727-487e-b9cf-4889a8a07293.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Hotel EMC2, Autograph Collection — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Hotel EMC2, Autograph Collection · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Hotel EMC2, Autograph Collection — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhrwn06gl15xyhcg073k31713352627248_d03eddfb-f984-4cd5-a0e0-9db1ae07f76f.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Hotel EMC2, Autograph Collection — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Hotel EMC2, Autograph Collection · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Hotel EMC2, Autograph Collection, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhxnn07ib15xyyx7x4run1713352627802_88b34e6c-1904-4ba0-94ed-8711ac5ae5c0.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Hotel EMC2, Autograph Collection — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Hotel EMC2, Autograph Collection · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Hotel EMC2, Autograph Collection — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Viceroy Chicago","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/united-states/illinois/chicago-illinois/viceroy-chicago","city":"Chicago","cityHeader":"Chicago • Gold Coast • SPLURGE","neighborhood":"Gold Coast","designSummary":"What you see from the corner of State and Rush is a deliberate act of architectural conversation: a faceted cobalt glass tower, its pleated curtain wall catching the Lake Michigan sky, rising from a meticulously preserved 1920s terra-cotta and red brick base that once housed the Avenue Motel. Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture designed the new-build addition to sit above rather than erase the historic structure, and the contrast — creamy Beaux-Arts ornament giving way to folded blue glass — is precisely the point. Viceroy Chicago opened in 2017 with 180 rooms across 18 floors, and the Gold Coast address situates it within one of the city's most architecturally layered neighborhoods, the John Hancock Center and 875 North Michigan visible from the rooftop pool deck.\n\nInterior designer Roman and Williams brought a sensibility drawn from mid-century American glamour rather than corporate luxury — walnut case goods with brass hardware, geometric gold-and-black tile headboard walls that carry faint echoes of Frank Lloyd Wright's textile-block ornament, low-slung lounge chairs upholstered in patterned wool. The rooftop bar's burnished copper ceiling reflects back a warm amber light against the floor-to-ceiling glass, Foscarini-adjacent globe pendants lining the bartop beside a long black marble counter. 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The arrangement gives the hotel something unusual: guest rooms that begin well above the street, with floor-to-ceiling windows framing either the Chicago skyline massing to the south or Lake Michigan opening to the east, an expanse of blue that shifts from steel-grey to cobalt depending on the season. Recent renovations refreshed the 434 rooms in a palette of warm greige, natural oak headboards with channeled upholstery, and brass-finish side tables, the effect calibrated toward residential calm rather than corporate formality.\n\nThe public spaces carry more ambition. The lobby bar, visible in the images, deploys fluted walnut millwork across walls and ceiling coffers, a marble counter in blush and cream anchored beneath a cascading installation of pendant lights in brass — a composition that draws on the mid-century Chicago tradition of richly detailed hotel interiors without reproducing it literally. The indoor lap pool, capped by a gridded skylight of steel and glass, carries an older institutional confidence that the newer interiors wisely leave intact. 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The building's taut curtain wall and black-painted structural columns, visible in the street-level photographs at night, carry the discipline of late Miesian modernism without apology, and the hotel's interiors were conceived to honor rather than contradict that inheritance. Boston-based interior designer Alexandra Champalimaud took on the commission when the property opened in 2013, fitting 316 rooms across the lower floors of what had previously served as IBM's regional headquarters.\n\nChampalimaud's palette runs to warm ivory, taupe, and brushed gold — a deliberate counterpoint to the building's cool rationalism. Guest rooms feature four-poster beds with dark lacquered frames beneath gilded coffered ceilings, hand-painted wallcoverings scattered with gold-leaf botanical motifs, and Barcelona chairs positioned at floor-to-ceiling windows framing the Chicago River and Loop skyline. The lobby bar arranges tufted curved sofas and Knoll-adjacent lounge chairs across wide-plank oak floors, a digital artwork panel glowing against a gridded ebony wall. 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The building's stepped crown, visible in the image catching late afternoon light against a clear sky, carries an Art Deco confidence unusual for its era, the warm limestone cladding and vertical pilaster rhythm distinguishing it sharply from the reflective glass towers surrounding it along the Magnificent Mile.\n\nInside, the 345 rooms were refreshed in a renovation that introduced a palette of soft taupe, warm grey, and indigo — woven-texture carpet underfoot, upholstered platform beds dressed in crisp white linen, and marble-topped nightstands in rounded walnut. The club lounge and restaurant spaces lean into a more assertive contemporary register: quilted velvet dining chairs, dark-stained timber wall panels, and stone-topped tables in a room where full-height curtains pool against polished grey floor tile. The spa pool, framed by Ionic columns and a coffered oval ceiling in pale mint and cream, strikes a different note entirely — closer to an Edwardian municipal bathhouse than a Mies-influenced tower, and all the more memorable for it.","snippet":"A Helmut Jahn tower on Michigan Avenue with its lobby 30 floors above street level and an Edwardian-inspired spa pool.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts and Magnificent Mile shoppers","vibe":"Architectural-landmark · refined","highlights":["Helmut Jahn-designed 1989 tower with Art Deco crown","Lobby on the 30th floor, bypassing retail below","Spa pool with coffered oval ceiling and Ionic columns"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$570","pricePerNightExclTax":"$570","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhao703d115xysz4r2a051713355044201_66f87f8e-130d-4831-8e62-1f188008f7f5.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Four Seasons Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Four Seasons Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Four Seasons Chicago captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhgj904er15xycx57n0zv1713355044797_cec11d5f-c263-43cd-929c-52776b09629c.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Four Seasons Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Four Seasons Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Four Seasons Chicago, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhmai05gh15xyjrd7fad31713355045384_e0aedbc1-7073-47e2-b541-f8e1428ee611.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Four Seasons Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Four Seasons Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Four Seasons Chicago — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhs5v06i715xyl6j385rc1713355045988_ba4ba1b2-a0e6-458b-ac4a-0721c0c36a6e.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Four Seasons Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Four Seasons Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Four Seasons Chicago, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhxww07jx15xy7tqmas5p1713355046601_6d91ec00-ab0e-4259-a620-a4a311bf4ed6.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Four Seasons Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Four Seasons Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Four Seasons Chicago — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"The St. Regis Chicago","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/united-states/illinois/chicago-illinois/the-st-regis-chicago-the-st-regis-chicago","city":"Chicago","cityHeader":"Chicago • Lakeshore East • SPLURGE","neighborhood":"Lakeshore East","loyaltyProgram":"Marriott Bonvoy®","designSummary":"Jeanne Gang's faceted glass tower rising from Lakeshore East — its angled curtain wall planes catching Lake Michigan light differently at every hour — gave the St. Regis Chicago one of the most architecturally ambitious envelopes of any American hotel opened in the last decade. Studio Gang completed the 101-storey skyscraper in 2020, and the diagonal structural glazing that defines its exterior profile is just as legible from within the upper-floor suites, where floor-to-ceiling windows tilt outward at oblique angles to frame Navy Pier and the lakefront in a geometry that no conventional rectilinear tower could produce. The interiors, by the New York-based firm ForrestPerkins, balance that structural drama with a warm material register — smoked oak millwork, bouclé lounge chairs in oatmeal tones, brass pendant lighting with a mid-century candlestick profile — that keeps the 192 guest rooms and suites from feeling overwhelmed by their own views.\n\nThe restaurant spaces take a different tack entirely, deploying deep forest-green velvet tub chairs, herringbone parquet flooring, tall bronze-framed mirror panels, and industrial chandelier rings to conjure a mood closer to a grand European brasserie than a glass tower dining room. Up on the amenity floors, the indoor lap pool is lined with striated travertine pilasters and blue mosaic tiles, the lake and the Ferris wheel of Navy Pier visible through full-height glazing on two sides — a reminder that Gang's building was always as much about what it frames as what it contains.","snippet":"Jeanne Gang's geometrically faceted tower with tilted windows framing Lake Michigan and Navy Pier views.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts visiting Chicago's lakefront","vibe":"Architectural-drama · warm-modern","highlights":["Jeanne Gang's faceted glass tower with angled curtain wall planes","Floor-to-ceiling windows tilted at oblique angles framing Navy Pier","Travertine-lined indoor pool with two-sided lakefront views"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$572","pricePerNightExclTax":"$572","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clwt8yj9w015j85uwag4yjuv41717079363419_38b2eddc-4558-42b2-97e8-6a141595087a.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"The St. Regis Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · The St. Regis Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of The St. Regis Chicago captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clwt8zo8801l585uw1wljigbo1717078373023_fd2ba4d1-90e6-4cc0-b0a0-e6f625b2791d.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"The St. Regis Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · The St. Regis Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at The St. Regis Chicago, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clwt90t56020r85uw9xqi4hyd1717079368506_e9468803-3c5d-415e-9e28-84ddbb32ea04.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"The St. Regis Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · The St. Regis Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at The St. Regis Chicago — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clwt91xvq02gd85uwothn7qs61717078348609_049c1d20-8f31-418c-9dbb-8807dd866f4a.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"The St. Regis Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · The St. Regis Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at The St. Regis Chicago, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clwt932l002vz85uwcg3fg4az1717078389824_147611a3-d0ed-447e-9ced-d8aded86bb02.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"The St. Regis Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · The St. Regis Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at The St. Regis Chicago — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Park Hyatt Chicago","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/united-states/illinois/chicago-illinois/park-hyatt-chicago","city":"Chicago","cityHeader":"Chicago • Magnificent Mile • SPLURGE","neighborhood":"Magnificent Mile","loyaltyProgram":"World of Hyatt","designSummary":"At the intersection of Michigan Avenue and Chicago's water tower district, where the Magnificent Mile transitions from retail grandeur toward the quieter residential north, a pale limestone tower designed by Lucien Lagrange and completed in 2000 gives Park Hyatt Chicago its architectural bearing — classical proportions and a warm Indiana limestone cladding that place it closer to the great Chicago building tradition than to the glass curtain-wall ambition dominating the same skyline. The building rises to 67 floors, with the hotel claiming the lower portion of a mixed-use tower that also houses private residences, and its terrace — visible in the images, set with white tensile canopies and looking south toward Lake Michigan — feels genuinely elevated, the city's grid spreading out like a circuit board below.\n\nA recent renovation brought the 198 guestrooms into a calmer, more considered register: wide-plank light oak flooring, upholstered linen headboards running floor-to-ceiling, window seats framing the surrounding architecture as if it were art, marble side tables, and pendant lamps in opaline glass casting a warm domestic light. The palette throughout is warm greige and parchment, a deliberate retreat from the older hotel's darker mahogany-and-cognac language. 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Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum designed the limestone-clad tower, which rises 37 floors and holds 215 rooms and suites, and from the street the building carries the feeling of a Haussmann-era Parisian block transplanted to the corner of Walton and Bellevue — classical proportions, pronounced rustication at the base, the kind of facade that settles into its surroundings rather than competing with them.\n\nInside, the interiors navigate the familiar tension between Waldorf grandeur and contemporary restraint with reasonable confidence. Guest rooms move between two registers: one deploys richly upholstered headwall panels in caramel and deep charcoal with brass-trimmed bedside lighting and sputnik-style globe pendants near the window; another leans harder into drama, pairing lacquered black case goods with a large-format floral photograph — crimson blooms dissolving into darkness — mounted above the bed in a steel-framed surround. The dining room shown in the images commits fully to the Beaux-Arts brasserie idiom: black-lacquered millwork with gold pinstriping, antique mirror panels, tufted burgundy banquettes, caramel leather armchairs on black-and-white marble tile. The outdoor terrace, sheltered by the building's limestone flank and planted with multi-stem trees in oversized ribbed planters, offers a pocket of calm that few Chicago hotels manage convincingly.","snippet":"A 37-floor Haussmann-inspired tower with classical proportions, Beaux-Arts dining, and a sheltered limestone terrace.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts and classical design collectors","vibe":"Parisian-classical · restrained-grand","highlights":["Haussmann-inspired limestone facade with pronounced rustication","Beaux-Arts dining room with antique mirrors and gold pinstriping","Sheltered limestone terrace with multi-stem trees and ribbed planters"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$599","pricePerNightExclTax":"$599","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhabr03at15xyfme3cfbc1713354297901_bf660231-8f44-4e2c-945f-b2b4b738b2bd.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Waldorf Astoria Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Waldorf Astoria Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Waldorf Astoria Chicago captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhg7204cj15xypiw74qc91713354299399_6f0e1d93-6a51-4d2a-b3d1-aed0177d558b.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Waldorf Astoria Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Waldorf Astoria Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Waldorf Astoria Chicago, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhlyn05e915xyqpk4vtrt1713354299921_1573a075-bec9-41ed-9a35-e4816d2b2de3.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Waldorf Astoria Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Waldorf Astoria Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Waldorf Astoria Chicago — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhruc06fz15xypdi219kw1713354300814_d290218f-3344-4ab0-a18d-504df73f7c92.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Waldorf Astoria Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Waldorf Astoria Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Waldorf Astoria Chicago, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhxmk07hw15xyboat33tl1713354301477_22fddc2a-26e2-42ea-af3e-50cc683e08c2.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Waldorf Astoria Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Waldorf Astoria Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Waldorf Astoria Chicago — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"The Peninsula Chicago","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/united-states/illinois/chicago-illinois/the-peninsula-chicago","city":"Chicago","cityHeader":"Chicago • Magnificent Mile • OVER THE TOP","neighborhood":"Magnificent Mile","designSummary":"At the corner of Superior Street and Michigan Avenue, where the Magnificent Mile reaches its densest concentration of retail and civic ambition, a limestone-clad tower completed in 2001 by Lucien Lagrange Architects established the Peninsula Chicago as one of the few new-build luxury hotels in America to hold its own against the century-old grand dames of the city's hospitality tradition. The building's neoclassical massing — projecting cornices, grid-patterned stone, a setback crown visible from the exterior images here glowing amber against the Chicago dusk — defers to the scale of its Michigan Avenue neighbors while the rooftop bar level announces itself with a purple-lit contemporary transparency that makes no such concessions to the past.\n\nThe 339 rooms carry the Peninsula's signature integrated-technology headboards in dark-stained wood with inset upholstered panels and ivory linen, navy accent cushions grounding the otherwise pale palette of wool carpet and cream walls. Botanical wall panels, visible in the guestroom images, introduce a lightness that keeps the interiors from settling into the corporate neutrality that plagues comparable properties. The bar space — checkerboard marble floors in olive and ivory, plum velvet club chairs, brass pendant columns descending from a tessellated gold ceiling, and a painted Chicago skyline mural behind the counter — has a quietly theatrical conviction. The mid-building spa pool, lined with floor-to-ceiling steel-framed windows overlooking the Loop, channels the serene geometry of a private natatorium suspended twenty floors above the street.","snippet":"A 2001 Lucien Lagrange tower on Magnificent Mile with neoclassical limestone facade and a purple-lit rooftop bar.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts and Magnificent Mile visitors","vibe":"Neoclassical-contemporary · refined","highlights":["Lucien Lagrange neoclassical tower completed 2001","Rooftop bar with purple-lit contemporary glass crown","20th-floor spa pool with Loop views and steel-frame windows"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$689","pricePerNightExclTax":"$689","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhae203bb15xyysdh1lfn1713355037504_94fe1aab-d6c7-432f-8ce2-e39d8e208fc9.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"The Peninsula Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · The Peninsula Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of The Peninsula Chicago captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhg9904cx15xykwyotcik1713355038170_0fc717c8-5080-41c9-9ca9-980495abeb7e.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"The Peninsula Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · The Peninsula Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at The Peninsula Chicago, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhm0i05ep15xy6zgwbdj91713355038632_5ce501a5-35af-4ee0-a448-b8612a576c31.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"The Peninsula Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · The Peninsula Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at The Peninsula Chicago — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhrvv06gf15xyv2emvchy1713355039312_07d89571-2a36-4624-a6fd-cab9971a6906.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"The Peninsula Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · The Peninsula Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at The Peninsula Chicago, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhxmx07i515xy1bv0zsmx1713355039897_5322062c-ad13-4987-b792-23a76b918edb.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"The Peninsula Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · The Peninsula Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at The Peninsula Chicago — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Virgin Hotels Chicago","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/united-states/illinois/chicago-illinois/virgin-hotels-chicago","city":"Chicago","cityHeader":"Chicago • Chicago Loop • OPTIMIZE","neighborhood":"Chicago Loop","designSummary":"At 203 North Wabash Avenue, the building that became Virgin Hotels Chicago in 2015 has a deeper story than its red neon sign suggests. Originally constructed in 1928 as the Old Dearborn Bank Building, the 27-floor terra-cotta-clad tower was designed in the Chicago Commercial style, its ornamental entrance canopy and brass-framed doors — visible in the images — preserved with evident care during the conversion. The architects of record for the hotel transformation worked within a structure whose bones already carried considerable architectural authority, and the lobby bar makes full use of the original double-height volume: a cascading pendant installation of bare-filament bulbs and glass drops falls above an oval bar clad in quilted crimson leather panels, its elliptical steel canopy holding suspended glassware in a gesture that is part aviation lounge, part Art Deco cinema.\n\nThe 250 rooms were conceived around Virgin's proprietary Chamber layout, which divides each unit into a dressing vestibule and a separate sleeping area using a warm-toned sliding timber panel — a spatial idea that quietly solves the awkwardness of traditional hotel room entry. Beds carry a softly sculpted low-profile frame in off-white upholstery, paired with Saarinen-adjacent tulip tables used as desks, and patterned rugs in burgundy and navy that ground an otherwise pale palette. The rooftop bar, called the Everdine, takes a sharply different register — cross-cut timber log walls lit in deep red, a mounted elk head, blue velvet modular seating, and herringbone-tiled floors creating the atmosphere of a hunting lodge filtered through a downtown nightclub.","snippet":"A 1928 Chicago Commercial landmark converted into a hotel with preserved terra-cotta facade and sculptural lobby bar.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts exploring Chicago's Loop","vibe":"Art-Deco-modern · architectural","highlights":["1928 Chicago Commercial terra-cotta tower with preserved brass-framed entrance","Lobby bar with cascading bare-filament pendant installation above quilted crimson leather oval","Rooftop hunting-lodge bar with cross-cut timber walls and herringbone floors"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$233","pricePerNightExclTax":"$233","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhba603h415xynqd9ru4x1713363810720_50b6dab3-bedb-4a6e-9da6-c8e005a68315.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Virgin Hotels Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Virgin Hotels Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Virgin Hotels Chicago captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhh4g04ir15xy3zsbvnnh1713363811529_5a4502a5-ecaf-4596-8812-9bef52177ac1.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Virgin Hotels Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Virgin Hotels Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Virgin Hotels Chicago, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhmwu05kf15xy3835s4k41713363812198_191c666e-d901-44c3-ba9c-24cc96125203.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Virgin Hotels Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Virgin Hotels Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Virgin Hotels Chicago — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhsr706m515xyyq84l0wm1713363813032_7829d8ac-459e-4b7f-8300-8a2a08330d7f.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Virgin Hotels Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Virgin Hotels Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Virgin Hotels Chicago, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhyio07nv15xyt2mx2lkp1713363813725_39e43ec8-412b-4a72-a701-f95b4524d55e.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Virgin Hotels Chicago — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Virgin Hotels Chicago · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Virgin Hotels Chicago — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Sophy Hyde Park","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/united-states/illinois/chicago-illinois/sophy-hyde-park","city":"Chicago","cityHeader":"Chicago • Hyde Park • OPTIMIZE","neighborhood":"Hyde Park","loyaltyProgram":"I Prefer","designSummary":"Hyde Park's intellectual gravity — the University of Chicago, the Museum of Science and Industry, the ghosts of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition — gives the Sophy Hyde Park an unusually strong sense of place for a hotel that opened in 2018. The eight-storey brick building at 53rd Street and South Cornell Avenue was purpose-built rather than converted, its dark masonry and steel-mullioned factory windows carrying the massing of a late industrial warehouse while sitting comfortably among the neighborhood's early twentieth-century apartment blocks. The ground floor houses Mesler, a restaurant and bar whose name recalls the area's deep Chicago history, its interior anchored by a marble-topped bar under an oval halo of bare-bulb pendants and a swirling marbled ceiling treatment that veers closer to a Florentine palazzo than a Chicago tavern.\n\nThe 98 rooms were designed with an art program at their center rather than as an afterthought — large-scale abstract murals mounted behind the cream upholstered headboards dissolve the boundary between artwork and architectural surface, the teal, indigo, and ochre palette bleeding into geometric-patterned rugs in navy and white and dark-stained wide-plank oak floors. The dining room at Mesler layers the same sensibility differently: yellow leather club chairs arranged around a carved pedestal table, gallery-hung artwork covering paneled walls from dado to cornice, built-in bookshelves giving the room the atmosphere of a well-loved faculty club rather than a hotel restaurant.","snippet":"A 2018 Hyde Park hotel with warehouse-inspired brick facade, art-forward rooms, and a palazzo-influenced restaurant.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts and University of Chicago visitors","vibe":"Intellectual-industrial","highlights":["Industrial warehouse aesthetic with steel-mullioned windows","98 rooms featuring large-scale abstract murals as focal points","Mesler restaurant with Florentine palazzo ceiling and marble bar"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$244","pricePerNightExclTax":"$244","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhapn03dd15xye4p846a01713352680250_d3cf9b3c-6d70-42f1-8a07-5e58cbaff232.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Sophy Hyde Park — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Sophy Hyde Park · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Sophy Hyde Park captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhgjo04ez15xyqv6x2fy21713352682427_964f966d-41bb-48d8-b617-1ea0a29e5962.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Sophy Hyde Park — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Sophy Hyde Park · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Sophy Hyde Park, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhmbv05gp15xyb4wrk0mc1713352683255_257bfdba-bb88-4f68-b3ae-9a51c080f5e1.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Sophy Hyde Park — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Sophy Hyde Park · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Sophy Hyde Park — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhs6r06if15xyi7rhiifk1713352684043_011eeb47-7fc2-4a32-a266-c2460c376128.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Sophy Hyde Park — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Sophy Hyde Park · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Sophy Hyde Park, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhxy407k515xy3zehzin21713352684753_e86f9ee3-797c-40d4-87b1-6b258a248af9.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Sophy Hyde Park — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Sophy Hyde Park · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Sophy Hyde Park — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Kimpton Gray Hotel","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/united-states/illinois/chicago-illinois/kimpton-gray-hotel","city":"Chicago","cityHeader":"Chicago • Chicago Loop • OPTIMIZE","neighborhood":"Chicago Loop","loyaltyProgram":"IHG® One Rewards","designSummary":"At 122 West Monroe Street in the Chicago Loop, the 1894 Chicago Athletic Association building — a Richardsonian Romanesque structure with a limestone facade that survived more than a century of the city's relentless self-reinvention — was converted into the Kimpton Gray Hotel when it opened in 2016. The project, undertaken with interiors by Simeone Deary Design Group, posed a specific challenge: how to honor a building whose original purpose was institutional gravitas while making 293 rooms feel genuinely habitable. The answer is visible in the lobby's library lounge, where floor-to-ceiling ebonized bookcases lined with law volumes and tan Chesterfield sofas set against deep lacquered millwork give the ground floor the atmosphere of a private club rather than a hotel arrival sequence.\n\nUpstairs, the rooms take a different register entirely — grey grasscloth-textured wallcoverings, cobalt patterned carpets in a bold floral weave, and sky-blue curtains pooling at generous sash windows that frame the Loop's canyon of stone facades. Globe pendants suspended on black cords above the headboards and mint-green lacquered desks introduce a mid-century warmth that keeps the palette from reading cold. 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The facade, visible in the images, makes Cobb's sources explicit: terra-cotta tracery drawn from the Doge's Palace, paired lancet arches in pale limestone against deep red brick, an almost absurdly ornate street presence sandwiched between towers of glass and concrete. When Commune Hotels converted the building into a 241-room hotel in 2015, the challenge was to honor that institutional gravity without pickling it.\n\nInterior designer Roman and Williams rose to that brief with characteristic confidence. The 241 rooms preserve original plaster ceiling medallions worked into elaborate interlocking oval patterns, dark-stained wainscoting with carved Gothic detailing, and original terrazzo floors — all visible in the room shots — then layer in worn kilim rugs, tufted leather chaises, club armchairs in cognac leather, and Moorish-arched stone fireplaces that carry the warmth of a private library rather than the formality of a monument. 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The red brick facade, articulated with a basketweave pattern across its upper registers and framed by steel-mullioned factory windows, carries the atmosphere of a converted loft building while being new construction — a distinction the Ennead Architects-assisted design handles with more conviction than most. Interior design came from Ennismore's in-house creative team working alongside Avroko, the New York studio whose period-layered approach suits the Hoxton brand's tendency toward lived-in warmth over polished anonymity. The 182 rooms deploy tufted leather headboards in tobacco and forest green velvet, brass dome reading lamps mounted on floor-to-ceiling poles, mid-century walnut case goods, and graphic duvet covers that add a playful note without tipping into whimsy.\n\nThe ground-floor restaurant Cabra — a Peruvian rooftop concept by chef Stephanie Izard that was subsequently moved up — and the all-day Cira dining room below read as distinct interior environments: one drawn in cognac leather banquettes and dark-stained wide-plank oak, the other more intimate with floral carpet, slatted timber ceilings, and warm pendant clusters. 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The property's 311 rooms were refurbished in a renovation that brought interior designer Bill Rooney's vision of calibrated urban glamour to what had previously operated as a Marriott property, translating the building's period bones into a contemporary luxury register.\n\nThe guest rooms layer geometric patterned carpets in warm grey with upholstered platform beds, brass-detailed nightstands, and custom wall murals featuring fluid botanical and figurative line drawings that echo the sculptural vocabulary of the building's exterior ornament. Blush barrel chairs and multi-arm black floor lamps in a mid-century idiom provide counterpoint to the neutral ground. Downstairs, the bar deploys bouclé lounge chairs alongside green velvet barstool seating with gilt cage bases, the back bar framed in arched rattan panels that soften an otherwise dark-lacquered surround. 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The building's stepped crown, visible for blocks across Wicker Park's low-rise grid, was designed as an office tower and spent decades as such before its 2016 conversion into a 69-room hotel under the direction of développeur firm Grupo Habita, whose sensibility runs to adaptive reuse with a spare, design-forward hand.\n\nThe interiors honor the building's geometry without retreating into period pastiche. Rooms are fitted with low-slung platform beds in dark-stained oak, marble-topped nightstands cantilevered from lacquered red steel brackets, and frosted glass partition walls — details visible in the images that draw a clear line to the Bauhaus tradition rather than 1920s Deco ornament. Marcel Breuer's Cesca chair appears at corner tables where black-trimmed casement windows frame rooftop views over the neighborhood's Victorian two-flats. Downstairs, the all-day restaurant deploys deep crimson leather banquettes against herringbone oak floors and pendant Edison fixtures suspended from a graphite ceiling — industrial warmth calibrated to the neighborhood rather than the Loop. 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The conversion kept the industrial bones deliberately exposed: raw brick walls, poured concrete ceilings, and double-height warehouse volumes remain visible throughout the property's 40 rooms and extensive common areas, while Soho House's in-house design team layered in a domestic warmth that pulls against the building's mercantile origins.\n\nThat tension between the rough and the refined is what gives the interiors their particular character. The ground-floor bar sets a curved mahogany counter beneath tiered crystal chandeliers, parquet flooring meeting exposed brick in an arrangement that feels more like a well-furnished private townhouse than a hotel lobby. Guestrooms follow a similar logic: turned-post four-poster beds and mirrored Venetian side tables sit beneath unfinished concrete soffits, while olive and terracotta velvet club chairs anchor Oriental-patterned rugs on wide-plank timber floors. 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When LondonHouse Chicago was carved from its upper floors and an adjacent annex in 2016, the challenge was persuading a century-old civic monument to work as a contemporary hotel without flattening what makes the building extraordinary. The 452-room property rises 22 floors, its position at the confluence of the Chicago River and Michigan Avenue giving it one of the most architecturally saturated views in American hospitality.\n\nInterior designer Simeone Deary Studio handled the rooms and public spaces with a palette drawn from the building's own material language — walnut-paneled headboards, geometric carpet patterns in charcoal and silver, dark-framed wall sconces with ribbed brass detailing — photograph groupings above the beds referencing the city's architectural photography tradition. The lobby bar, visible in the images, sets velvet club sofas and octagonal marble-topped tables against floor-to-ceiling glass that frames Bertrand Goldberg's Marina City corncob towers directly across the river. 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The LaSalle Chicago, which joined Marriott's Autograph Collection following a comprehensive renovation completed around 2018, draws its identity from that institutional gravitas without being trapped by it. The 18-floor building holds 241 rooms, and the conversion required threading contemporary hospitality programming through a structure designed to project the permanence of capital.\n\nInside, the lobby establishes its register with white marble floors inlaid with black border detailing, a long bar surfaced in book-matched stone, and dark walnut millwork panels that carry a quiet Art Deco authority. Guestrooms pursue a more overtly mid-century register — slate-blue panelled walls with raised moulding, tufted silver headboards, deep cobalt velvet sofas, and brass-and-glass drum chandeliers that nod toward 1940s Hollywood Regency without quite committing to it. Sunburst mirrors in gilded brass appear throughout as punctuation. The Grill 21 restaurant deepens the palette considerably: plum velvet banquettes with brass-trimmed bases, tiered crystal chandeliers, and oval gilt mirrors arranged in a rhythm along amber-toned walls. 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Completed in 2019 and designed by Rockwell Group — the New York practice that has shaped the visual identity of the Nobu brand across more than a dozen hotel properties worldwide — the 115-room building was purpose-built rather than converted, yet its punched-grid facade and warm bronze base lighting suggest something reclaimed rather than newly constructed, a deliberate nod to the loft buildings that defined the surrounding streetscape.\n\nInside, the interiors sustain that dialogue between Japanese restraint and American industrial texture. Guest rooms pair exposed concrete ceilings with wide-plank oak floors, deep charcoal plaster accent walls, and low-profile platform beds with leather-trimmed bench ends — the furniture geometry echoing the black steel of the windows that frame direct sightlines toward the Willis Tower. 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