Hilton Chicago (previously known as Chicago Hilton and Towers from 1985 to 1998) is a centrally located luxury hotel in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The hotel is a Chicago landmark that overlooks Grant Park, Lake Michigan, and the Museum Campus. It is the third-largest hotel in Chicago by number of guest rooms; however, it has the largest total meeting and event space of any hotel in the city.[3] From its opening in 1927 through 2008, every sitting president of the United States had been housed in the hotel before leaving office.[4]
History
The Stevens Hotel
The hotel, designed in the Beaux-Arts architecture style, opened on May 2, 1927, as the Stevens Hotel, across Balbo Street from the older Blackstone Hotel. At the time, the Stevens was the largest hotel in the world.[5]