Just a year later, as the Palmer House Hotel neared completion, the Chicago Fire of 1871 gutted ... Bertha entertained most frequently in the rooftop ballroom with its adjoining picture gallery.

Chicago’s 154-year-old Palmer House Hilton is the latest venue to tap into a glamorized legacy of Prohibition. Potter’s Bar is a speakeasy-style cocktail lounge that will require an entry ...

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 ...