Chicago neighborhoods
10 historic hotels · curated by Preservation Chicago
Once a district of warehouses, factories, and the wholesale trade, River North reinvented itself first as Chicago’s gallery district and then as one of its liveliest dining and nightlife quarters. Its sturdy old loft and commercial buildings have proven ideal for adaptive reuse, and many now house characterful boutique hotels.
Set just north of the river and west of Michigan Avenue, it is central, energetic, and full of restaurants and galleries.
historic Olympia Building
1927 Devonshire Hotel
1927 McCormick Hotel
1925 Beaux-Arts building
1967 Marina City
1926 Hotel Wacker
1960 Midcentury motor inn
1928 Borden's Dairy Depot
1972 Mies van der Rohe IBM Building
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