Hotels in buildings by William Le Baron Jenney

William Le Baron Jenney is often called ‘the father of the skyscraper.’ His Home Insurance Building of 1885 is widely credited as the first tall building carried on a metal frame — the innovation that made the modern high-rise possible — and his office trained a generation of Chicago School architects.

Buildings by Jenney and his firm Jenney & Mundie still stand in the Loop, including two that now welcome hotel guests.