The mansion spent most of the 20th century cut up into apartments before being turned back to single-family use in the late ...

The seven-bedroom limestone mansion at 79 East Cedar Street is a rare single-family listing in Chicago’s Gold Coast.

this is the oldest hotel in Chicago, and it claims (as do a dozen others) to be the longest continuously running hotel in North America. The Palmer House also claims that it was the largest hotel ...

The original hotel opened on September 26,1871 ... When you visit the Palmer House in Chicago and purchase a brownie, you’ll be enjoying the same dessert that was invented over 125 years ...

Just a year later, as the Palmer House Hotel neared completion, the Chicago Fire of 1871 gutted the city. When the Palmer House was rebuilt, Bertha and her husband moved into a suite there ...