It burned down in the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. A view of the Grand Dining Hall at the Palmer House Hotel in the late 1800s. The original Palmer House Barber Shop with 800 silver dollars ...

So claims the Palmer House, a Hilton hotel that has been operating in downtown Chicago since 1873 (the original hotel was built in 1870 but burned down during the Great Chicago Fire a year later).

As a recent guest of the Palmer House, I learned that you can ... his dry goods business to Marshall Field. As Chicago was growing out of its original swampy confines, he went on to build ...

For all of its history, the famous hotel standing at the southeast corner of State and Monroe is actually the city’s third Palmer House. The original was destroyed in the 1871 Chicago Fire ...

it's that the Palmer House knows how to keep its guests coming back time and again. Welcoming Chicago visitors since 1873, this iconic downtown mainstay is a favorite among travelers who want to ...

Ken Price was born and raised in Chicago, the son of Mack and ... including the “Palmer House Cook Book: 1022 Original Recipes for Home Use.” Also on the table is a spittoon used long ago ...

A 19th-century mansion on Cedar Street, built by the onetime “Queen of Chicago ... Bertha Palmer exerted significant influence in the now-cherished interior design of the Palmer House Hotel ...

CHICAGO, May 4 ... When the great fire came in 1871 Mr. Palmer had ninety-five fine buildings in the city, including the Palmer House. All were destroyed in that conflagration.