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Overlooking Grant Park on Michigan Avenue Chicagos Essex Inn is an intimate 254room full service hotel providing excellent views of the city Grant Park and Lake Michigan with convenient access to Chicagos Magnificent Mile world famous museums sporting venues the Loop and McCormick Place. One of the focal points of the hotel is the complimentary Garden Deck Rooftop Pool and Fitness Center located on the fourth floor. The all season pool and sauna is enclosed with a retractable atrium that offers a comfortable environment with fabulous views. The new 1350 square foot Fitness Center offers over 25 pieces of top of the line equipment. The pool terrace extends onto the rooftop garden showcasing over 25 species of perennials and endangered grasses. Attracting travelers of every type from conventioneers to vacationers this downtown Chicago hotel offers a unique experience that caters to guests from all walks of life. Travelers will enjoy Hi Speed Wireless internet access 24hour Business Center with high speed Internet access complimentary shuttle to the Magnificent Mile shopping district Museum Campus and Navy Pier. All of the attractive guestrooms and suites offer Hi Speed wireless internet connectivity coffee makers hair dryers irons and ironing boards expanded cable TV with free movie channels and a state of the art door locking system. Meeting and banquet facilities are available onsite to accommodate up to 150 people theater style. Complimentary WiFi

Pool view

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King Suite -provide view of fireworks at Navy Pier. Boats on Lake Michigan and people strolling in Grant Park. Floor to ceiling windows all around. action. Living room with a sleeper sofa. one bedroom with one king size bed. Automated wake up service.
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Standard Room with two Double Beds. No charges for kids age 17 or younger staying in same room as parents. Hi-Speed wireless Internet access. TVs with extended Cable includes HBO. Coffeemaker and coffee. Phones with voicemail and automated wakeup service.
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Standard King Room - Standard King Bed Rooms are tastefully decorated from the Art Institute's finest reproductions. No room charges for children 17 and younger occupying the same room as their parents. Automated wakeup service
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Double Suite - One bedroom with two double beds and a separate living room with a queen size sleeper sofa. Automated wake up service. Views of the museum campus and our own pool and garden. Plus Lake Michigan and Grant Park.
Deluxe: 
King Deluxe Room - views of Lake Michigan and Grant Park. One king size bed. There are no room charges for children 17 and younger occupying the same room as their parents. Includes automated wakeup service.
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Standard Queen Room - Standard room with one queen bed. Tastefully decorated with framed art from the Art Institute's finest reproductions. No room charges for children 17 and younger occupying the same room as their parents. Automated wakeup service

Attraction 1.88 miles north from the property. Attraction 1.3 miles north east from the property. Attraction 1.12 miles north west from the property. FROM THE KENNEDY EXPRESSWAY I-94 - EXIT AT CONGRESS PARKWAY EAST. TAKE CONGRESS PARKWAY TO MICHIGAN AVE. TURN RIGHT ON MICHIGAN AVE. THE ESSEX INN IS THREE BLOCKS SOUTH ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE STREET. THE PARKING GARAGE IS ADJACENT TO US ON 8TH STREET. FROM THE EISENHOWER EXPRESSWAY I-290 - I-290 TURNS INTO CONGRESS PARKWAY. FOLLOW CONGRESS PARKWAY EAST TO MICHIGAN AVE. TURN RIGHT ON MICHIGAN AVE. THE ESSEX INN IS THREE BLOCKS SOUTH ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE STREET. THE PARKING GARAGE IS ADJACENT TO US ON 8TH STREET. CHICAGO MIDWAY AIRPORT MDW - HEAD NORTH ON SR-50 S CICERO AVE. CONTINUE TO I-55 AND HEAD NORTHBOUND. I-55 MERGES WITH LAKE SHORE DRIVE. CONTINUE ON LAKE SHORE DRIVE AND EXIT AT ROOSEVELT STREET TURNING LEFT ONTO ROOSEVELT. TAKE A RIGHT ONTO MICHIGAN AVENUE AND PROCEED TO THE HOTEL ON THE LEFT. THE PARKING GARAGE IS ADJACENT TO US ON 8TH STREET. OHARE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ORD - HEAD EAST ON I-190. CONTINUE EAST ON I-90 KENNEDY EXPRESSWAY. NEXT TAKE I-290 EAST EISENHOWER EXPRESSWAY TOWARD THE CHICAGO LOOP. THE EISENHOWER EXPRESSWAY BECOMES THE CONGRESS PARKWAY. CONTINUE EAST ON CONGRESS PARKWAY. TURN RIGHT ONTO MICHIGAN AVENUE AND PROCEED TO THE HOTEL ON THE RIGHT. THE PARKING GARAGE IS ADJACENT TO US ON 8TH STREET. The Essex Inn is conveniently located in the heart of Chicago and any type of traveler will find the perfect local attraction close by. For families you ll want to take your kids to the spectacular Shedd Aquarium the Field Museum The Sears Tower Skydeck or just walk across the street to Buckingham Fountain Grant Park and Millennium Park. For the business traveler you ll find upscale restaurants for entertaining clients. For the cultureseeker you can walk to the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago Midway Airport, (MDW), 14.00, SE, Mile; O`Hare Intl Airport, (ORD), 17.00, NW, Mile

Guarantee: 30Sep2008 to 31Dec9999 - All reservations must be guaranteed with a credit card due at time of booking. Cash is accepted as payment at the time of check in a minimum of a USD 75 deposit per night is required for incidentals.

Cancel 1 Day Before Arrival. Cancellation penalty is 1 nights including tax. Cancel by 4pm hotel time 1 day prior to arrival to avoid a penalty of one nights room and tax.

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Adler Planetarium
The Adler Planetarium Americas First Planetarium was founded in 1930 by Chicago business leader Max Adler. The museum is home to three fullsize theaters including the alldigital projection Defiiti Space Theater the Sky

Grant Park
Referred to as Chicagos front yard Grant Park is among the citys loveliest and most prominent parks and the site of three worldclass museums the Art Institute the Field Museum of Natural History and the Shedd Aquarium.

John G Shedd Aquarium
Attraction .59 miles south east from the property.

John Hancock Observatory
Experience spectacular views spanning up to 80 miles and four states. The newly renovated Hancock Observatory will meet your loftiest expectations!

McCormick Place Convention Center
Chicagos McCormick Place the premier convention facility in North America. Located just minutes from downtown Chicago McCormick Place is owned and operated by the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority MPEA and attracts close to 3 million

Millennium Park
A magnificent public space with extraordinary art and architecture spectacular concerts and events and breathtaking gardens that capture the energy and excitement of Chicago.

Museum of Contemporary Art MCA
One of the nations largest facilities devoted to the art of our time the Museum of Contemporary Art MCA offers exhibitions of the most thoughtprovoking art created since 1945. The MCA documents contemporary visual culture through painting sculpture

Navy Pier
A family attraction with over 50 acres of parks gardens shops restaurants entertainment cruises an IMAX theatre sculpture garden special events theatre Ferris wheel biweekly seasonal fireworks and so much more.

Soldier Field
Originally opened in 1924 Soldier Field was known as one of the great venues during the Golden Age of Sports and one of Chicagos most famous landmarks. Now seventynine years later the new Soldier Field has been unveiled

The Art Institute of Chicago
It is true that art museums are about the stubborn matteroffactness of things: the works of art. But access to the Art Institutes collection has always been enhanced by words and reproduced images. With the launch of our redesigned Web site

The Field Museum
The Field Museum was founded to house the biological and anthropological collections assembled for the Worlds Columbian Exposition of 1893. These objects form the core of the Museums collections which have grown through worldwide expeditions exchange

The Sears Tower Skydeck
See Chicagos most breathtaking views from the worlds second largest building. Theres an interactive display and a virtual tour of Chicago and its history.

Water Tower Place
At the pinnacle of Chicagos famed Magnificent Mile Water Tower Place is Chicagos premier shopping destination. Its stunning eightlevel atrium features more than 100 of your favorite stores and restaurants plus a mix of distinctive specialty shops

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