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Streets of Chicago
to the bridge
me going to the boat
strolling
can anyone suggest an unexpinsive hotel downtown chicago?
thanks!!!
Try the Elms - details on my Chicago page.
The least expensive place you can stay in downtown Chicago is the Harris Hostel.
Check its web site at: http://www.hichicago.org.
Of course it isn't a hotel, but it is located in the Loop and convenient to public transportation.
Cass Hotel, and sometimes you can get good rates using hotwire or priceline, or other online hotel booking services (particularly on weekends). Heart-O-Chicago Motel and Chicago Lodge Motel, both on the north side of the city (but with good public transport connections) are good "in the city" inexpensive choices, also.
I am guessing from your home page that you are not looking to stay in a hostel or hostel like/student hotel. With that said, what do you consider inexpensive (the Hilton is inexpensive compared to the Peninsula)? We have had family stay at the Hampton Inn Downtown (on W. Illinois) and it costs between $129-$189 a night. The rooms are quite large and the location is good. There are also Doubletree Guest Suites on Delaware. I would check on Orbitz/Expedia/Priceline to see if you can get any deals on some of the boutique hotels (Sofitel, Monaco, Amalfi).
hi to everyone that wrote to me!
and thanks!
i found Red Roof Inn downtown- about 90 + bucks per night, right on ontario street. from what i see- it looks ok and has great location.
thank you so much to all!
edith
Learn to use the El, and note that it stops running before most clubs close. Also, if you're out shopping, sightseeing, you might try a bus (good for getting to the museum campus) or taxi. I recommend comfortable walking shoes. It always seems like I wind up walking a lot, even when I don't plan it.
Get over your fears and head for Sears Tower. The best way to get the lay of the land is to get up in the Skydeck on a clear weekday morning, and enjoy views miles in each direction. My favorite memory in Chicago is 1985, when the Bears won the Super Bowl. That's another thing about Chicago, we love sports of all kinds and if you're gonna fit in anywhere you better be watching the game and drinking beer.
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233 South Wacker Drive, entrance on Jackson Boulevard
Tel: (312) 875 9696. Fax: (312) 906 8193.
Website: www.sears-tower.com
Transport: Quincy station; bus 1, 7, 60, 126, 129, 151 or 156.
Opening hours: Daily 0900-2300.
Admission: US$9.50, concessions available
Brilliantly designed by Chicago architectural legends David Adler and Louis Sullivan, the Auditorium Theater Building continues to inspire and delight well into its second century. Striking details, grand spaces, a civic monument to Chicago's pride and confidence. . . The building is now part of the Roosevelt University complex, so most of it is quasi "open to the public": during daylight hours, if you want to look around, no one will stop you. The Auditorium Theater itself is one of Chicago's grandest spaces: if you have a chance of seeing a Broadway show here, take it. The Theater is one of America's finest example of an exuberant and somewhat baroque style that could best be described as Byzantine neo-Gothic.
The basic structure is ten stories tall - but an additional tower rises an additional eight stories from the center. Adler & Sullivan originally had their offices at the very top, looking out from colonnaded windows over the city below. 430 S. Michigan Ave.
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Address: 5990 N. Ridge Ave, Chicago, Illinois, 60660-3263, United States
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