W Chicago Lakeshore Hotel (Chicago, Illinois)

USA / Illinois / Chicago / Chicago, Illinois / North Lake Shore Drive (US 41), 644

644 North Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 943-9200
www.wchicago-lakeshore.com/

The W Hotel is a 298-foot, 33-story building completed in 1964. Became a W hotel in 2001. There is a circular banquet room on the top floor that overhangs the edges of the building's facade.
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Coordinates:   41°53'38"N   87°36'56"W

Comments

  • Formerly Days Inn. This place used to be a dump! The elevators were very spooky and would ocationally end up at different a different floor other than you selected.
  • Built as Holiday Inn. The circular roof was a revolving (hourly, IIRC) restaurant.
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