LODGING, INNS, HOTELS, BOARDING HOUSES & ROADHOUSES

This photograph was taken between 1857 and 1859 when the Lake House was a Hospital for the poor. The Rush Street bridge opened in 1857.

Boarding House History in Chicago begins with the Fort Dearborn settlement. 

№ 1. Wolf Point Tavern opened in December 1828. w/Accommodations

№ 2. Eagle Exchange Tavern, 1829, w/Accommodations - Sauganash Hotel, 1831.

№ 3. The Green Tree Tavern was built in 1833. w/Accommodations

A Chronology of Early Chicago Area Hotels.

Chicago Beach Hotel at 53rd and the Lakefront, Chicago, Illinois.

Congress Plaza Hotel in Chicago and its Unbelievable Haunted History.

Edgewater Beach Hotel and Apartments in Chicago.

Ford's Theatre, Springfield, IL.

Great Northern Hotel, Chicago.

Hotel Alcazar in Chicago was a "Green Book" approved Hotel for Negro Guests.

Hotel Galt, Sterling, Illinois.

Hotel Planters, 19 North Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois.

Lake House, Chicago's First Luxury Hotel and Fine Dining Restaurant. 

Mineola Hotel, 91 North Cora Avenue, Fox Lake, Illinois. (1884-2012)

Plaza Hotel, 1553 North Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois.

Purple Hotel History in Lincolnwood, Illinois.

The Drake Hotel, Chicago, the In-Depth History of a National Historic Place.

Transit House Hotel (originally the Hough House) at the Union Stock Yards.