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

Just a year later, as the Palmer House Hotel neared completion, the Chicago Fire of 1871 gutted ... staircase that rose eighty feet into a tower in the interior. There were two elevators, an ...

Situated at State Street, one block from Grant Park, this is the oldest hotel in Chicago ... Palmer House also claims that it was the largest hotel in the world in the 1920s, when a 25-story tower ...

A 19th-century mansion on Cedar Street, built by the onetime “Queen of Chicago” Bertha Palmer and lavishly restored by its owners of the past 25 years, went up for sale today at $7.9 million.