For decades, Chicago's Blackstone Hotel, 636 S. Michigan Ave., has meant history to me: ... There are mirrors, plaster figures and floral elements on the walls, and French doors.

After nine years of stagnation and a $128 million renovation, the Blackstone reopened its doors this month. Now a Renaissance hotel under the Marriott brand, the 23-story property has kept much of ...

In 1995 — when South Michigan Avenue's ritzy heyday was long past and the renaissance of downtown Chicago hadn’t yet ignited — the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi bought the tired old Blackstone Hotel.

The Blackstone Hotel’s famous “smoke-filled room,” in which Republicans tapped Sen. Warren G. Harding to be their standard bearer in the 1920 presidential election, is now a non-s… ...

Chicago's Blackstone Hotel is a gorgeous piece of architecture, packed to the gills with history and decorated from head to toe with art, most of it by Windy City artists. Add a package deal with ...

Travelers have a favorite word for The Blackstone, Autograph Collection: comfortable. With its long history (the hotel dates back to 1910), this South Loop property could easily garner a stuffy ...

The Blackstone, which opened in 1910 and appears on the National Register of Historic Places, helped usher the phrase "smoke-filled room" into the political lexicon, legend has it, when a powerful ...

The renovation of a Chicago landmark hotel, the Blackstone, has been completed, with Sage Hospitality opening the property under Marriott's Renaissance brand after a $128 million renovation.

A historic hotel in Chicago’s South Loop celebrated the arrival of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Monday. The Blackstone Hotel, known as the “Hotel of Presidents,” has a replica ...