Chicago Hotels

One of Chicago's vintage hotels is getting a new lease on life. Laramar Group is converting the 15-story Belden Stratford hotel in Lincoln Park into an apartment building with 297 units. Built in 1923, the building at 2300 N. Lincoln Park West...

Headlines for Thursday,   May  24,  2012 AEROSMITH: Here It Is Aerosmith is back with their first new song in six years, "Legendary Child." They unveiled it last night during a live spot on the season finale of American Idol, which also included the...

172 W. Adams St. Chicago IL Though it may not possess the picturesque locale of its sister hotel, the W Chicago-City Center holds true to the adage: "It's what's on the inside that counts." Entering the Living Room lobby, guests are surrounded by a...

For four days, and nearly around the clock, Chicago police guided, cajoled and blockaded roaming groups of NATO protesters, following a set of strategic goals that laid the foundation for everything they did. Keep protesters from damaging property or...

While police and protesters kept wary eyes on each other on the eve of the NATO summit, people around Chicago tried to go about pursuing their own agendas. There were lifelong commitments to be made, baseball scores to settle, sights to see and fish to...

While police and protesters kept wary eyes on each other at the outset of NATO summit weekend, people around Chicago tried to go about pursuing their own agendas. There were lifelong commitments to be made, baseball feuds to settle, social wrongs to...

Here is the list of scheduled events, protests and closures for the NATO summit, which will be held in Chicago during the weekend of May 20. We will update this list as more event information becomes available. Friday, May 18 Nurses group to demonstrate...

Review: Argent 660 N. State St. 312-202-6050 Rating: !! (out of four) Give it some time Is it just me, or have Chicago chefs caught the nostalgia bug lately? Grant Achatz took us back to Paris in 1906 when he opened Next last spring. Then, Au Cheval...

To our most gracious foreign guests from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization: (This includes world leaders, dignitaries, generals, distinguished diplomats and all you foreign spymasters who think you're fooling somebody by posing as a low-level...

Chicago police officers are used to flooding hot spots on the South and West sides to fight the street gang violence that drives most of the mayhem in the city, but this week they have begun to flood another side of the metropolis: the glittering...

I don't know if teachers still do this, but at the end of each school year, I was handed a summer reading list, a sheet of required and optional books that would prepare students for the coming school year. (I still owe a measure of revenge to the teacher...