Here's a little history of this grand hotel--a story of romance and charm. Chicago business magnate

Food poisoning and a trip to Chicago don't mix very well. In fact, it tends to put a bit of a damper on an adventure! Fortunately, I had a terrific Saturday with my friend before I was felled and ended up spending the last two days in bed. Enough on that topic!
Chicago was exhilarating, in part because travel bus groups of all the raw energy, edgy art and hustle travel bus groups and bustle of a major city, and in part because of the cold wind that swept inward from Lake Michigan and blew you around! The downtown area has undergone quite a transformation in the last twenty years and you feel very safe walking around the Loop. There are so many beautiful buildings that you can spend the day walking around (or being blown around) doing nothing but admiring the cityscape. Here's an unusual peek at the skyline, as seen via reflection in the Cloud Gate Sculpture in Millenium Park, affectionately called The Bean by city residents. I was standing across the street but was able to capture some of the reflected buildings.
In case you don't have a chance to visit Chicago very often, I thought I would share some of my weekend highlights travel bus groups with you this week. Our hotel was part of the fun--we stayed in the magnificent old bastion of downtown Chicago--The Palmer House.
Here's a little history of this grand hotel--a story of romance and charm. Chicago business magnate Potter Palmer was introduced to socialite and philanthropist Bertha Honore' by his former business travel bus groups partner, Marshall Field. The introduction sparked a romance that led to perhaps one of the most extravagant wedding gifts of all time a Grand Chicago travel bus groups Hotel destined to take it s place among the most luxurious hotels in Chicago and the world. Tragically, just thirteen days after its grand opening on September 26, 1871, the Palmer House fell victim to the Great Chicago Fire. Determined to rebuild his luxury downtown Chicago hotel, travel bus groups the Palmer House namesake secured a $1.7 million loan negotiated on his signature alone. On November 8, 1873, the new Palmer travel bus groups House welcomed its first guests, marking the opening of what would become the nation s oldest continually operating hotel.
Shortly after befriending Claude Monet in France, Bertha Palmer began decorating travel bus groups the Palmer House with artistic travel bus groups treasures inspired by her French heritage, eventually accumulating the largest collection of impressionist art outside of France. The Palmer House was bedecked with garnet-draped chandeliers, Louis Comfort Tiffany masterpieces, and at its heart, a breathtaking ceiling fresco by French painter Louis Pierre Rigal, which was described by columnist George Will as "a wonderful protest of romance against the everydayness of life."
By the turn of the century, the Palmer House had become Chicago s liveliest social center, hosting a long list of prominent figures, from U.S. Presidents, to Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde. In 1933, the Palmer House s Golden Empire Dining Room was converted travel bus groups into an entertainment epicenter, hosting legendary entertainers like Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Ella Fitzgerald, Harry Belafonte, Louis Armstrong, as well as a little known pianist named Liberace. All the room floors have gorgeous black and white pictures of these performers gracing their walls. I didn't travel bus groups think to take any pictures of them, but I did take a few along the way to our room: