Chicago offers one of the most competitive hotel packages in the country, with a wide variety of centrally located properties that offer service, comfort, and value at every price point. And, the city’s hotel inventory continues to grow and diversify each year. An estimated 3,000 new and varied hotel rooms are scheduled for completion by 2009.
Chicago offers more than 30,000 rooms in the central business district and over 100,000 rooms in the metropolitan area. Included in the mix are a variety of luxury hotels, convention properties, intimate boutiques, and limited service hotels for those traveling on a budget.
One of Chicago’s latest hotels, The James Hotel, recently opened downtown on the corner of Rush and Ontario. The hotel features 209-rooms and offers the latest in technology including state-of-the-art plasma screens, ipod/mp3 docking stations and dimming light switches so guest can customize their environment.
The Trump International Hotel & Tower: This 90-story condo-hotel tower will feature 286 rooms and 472 luxury condominiums. It is currently under construction on the former site of the Chicago Sun-Times building along the Chicago River and is scheduled to be completed by January 2008.
Other new properties that opened downtown between 2001 and 2005 include:
- Amalfi Hotel Chicago (215 rooms)
- Courtyard by Marriott (305 rooms)
- Hard Rock Hotel Chicago (381 rooms)
- Sofitel Chicago Water Tower (415 rooms)
- Comfort Inn & Suites (130 rooms)
- Conrad Chicago (313 rooms) (formerly Le Meridien)
- Fairfield Inn (216 rooms)
- Embassy Suites Downtown Chicago Lakefront (456 rooms)
- Peninsula Chicago (340 rooms)
Recently Opened:
- Hotel Cass Mag Mile Chicago – A Holiday Inn Express – 175 rooms
- Hampton Inn – 135 rooms
Under Construction:
- The Blackstone, A Renaissance Hotel – 330 rooms
636 S. Michigan Ave.
Opening date of December ’07.
- Elysian Hotel – 188 hotel rooms & 51 private residences
11 E. Walton
Opening date of October ’08.
- LaQuinta Inn & Suites – 233 rooms
1 S. Franklin
Opening date of February ‘09
- Residence Inn – 270-rooms
440 N. Dearborn St.
Opening date of April ’08.
- Shangri-la Hotel – 222 condo-hotel rooms & 233 private residences
111 W. Wacker Drive
Opening date of February ‘09.
- Springhill Suites – 253 rooms
410 N. Dearborn
Opening date of April ‘08.
- Staybridge Suites – 209 rooms
127 Huron St.
Opening date of June ‘09
- Trump International Hotel & Tower – 286 condo/hotel rooms
401 N. Wabash Ave.
Opening date of February ‘08.
- Wit- A Doubletree Hotel- 298 rooms
505 N. State St.
Opening date of May ‘09