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Originally Posted by pianowizard
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What's the tallest hotel in Chicago? And the highest?
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The tallest all-hotel tower in chicago is the hotel intercontinental (the old medina athletic club tower from 1929) at 471', but the top of the tower has a lot of unoccupied architectural embellishments, so I think the tallest hotel room that you can actually book in chicago is in the 460' tall chicago marriott built in 1978.
There are of course 10 mixed-use towers with hotel components that are taller than those two in chicago, but I believe the hotel portions for all of them are on the lower floors, with residential units located on the upper floors.
Kinda weird that in a city with over 125 towers over 500' tall, you can't book a single hotel room above that height. It's one of the rare skyscraper superlatives that detroit has over chicago.