The Fifth Annual Chicago International Antiquarian Book Fair, which runs through Saturday at the Palmer House, showcases text treasures from $10 for books on travel to $150,000 for the document of ...

Thursday the highly secretive Palmer House vault was opened ... Polaroids taken at the Chicago World's Fair, when the camera was invented, the original show guide book from the hotel's famed ...

Some of the buildings remain and much of the city’s history can be linked to the fair. Chicago visitors can taste a little bit of that history by stopping by the Palmer House, a Hilton Hotel at ...

Palmer House Chicago Share You have a Chicago socialite, a hotel pastry chef and the 1893 World’s Fair to thank for the existence of the brownie. Or that’s at least what legend says.

Monroe St. He will happily tell you some historical facts, and there are plenty about the hotel that is Chicago’s oldest ... including the “Palmer House Cook Book: 1022 Original Recipes ...

was behind the first great hotel in Chicago: The Palmer House. "Bertha Palmer, who was president of the Ladies Managers of the World's Fair, was doing box lunches for all the guests but she wanted ...

In 1892, Douglass arrived in Chicago to serve as the World’s Fair commissioner for Haiti ... the abolitionist stopped by the Palmer House for an interview on a subject that had made the ...

The birthplace of the brownie can be traced to the kitchen of a Chicago hotel. So claims the Palmer House, a Hilton hotel ... known as the Chicago World's Fair — in 1893, according to the ...

The Palmer House Hilton is an amazing luxury hotel in the heart of Chicago—an enduring symbol ... in the late 19th century ...