When the late Ernie Byfield opened the Pump Room in Chicago in 1938, he thought of the restaurant as a stage. More than 28 years later it still ranks at the top of Chicago’s restaurants ...

Back then, the hot spot was owned by Ernie Byfield, a famous hotelier and restaurateur who would personally pick luminaries up at the train station. “This was the place where all the celebrities ...

When the late Ernie Byfield opened the Pump Room in Chicago in 1938, he thought of the restaurant as a stage. More than 28 years later it still ranks at the top of Chicago’s restaurants ...

It casts a spell on all of us who work and stay here.” The hotel opened in 1926, built by Frank Bering and Ernie Byfield atop a maze of tunnels and vaults, more than two miles of them ...

You know, it's prohibition, you're not supposed to drink. This guy Ernie Byfield is the top dog of restaurateurs and hoteliers in Chicago. And in 1928, he starts canning a tomato juice cocktail ...

There is an equestrian center there that was first established in the mid-1930s by Jack Byfield, brother of Ernie Byfield, who was the legendary creator of the Pump Room in the Ambassador East Hotel.