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Funny Business in Chicago
Mixing Business Travel with Leisure Time in Chicago
By Suzy Feine
The Sutton Place Hotel, 21 East Bellevue
Located in the trendy Gold Coast area, the Sutton Place Hotel offers 246 guest rooms and more than 7,000 square feet of meeting space. Best suited to meetings of 50 to 75 people, this hotel offers an intimate and upscale setting for events.
The Sutton Place Hotel's seven meeting rooms offer high-speed Internet access, T1 lines, freshly prepared catered meals by their in-house chef, an onsite audio/visual department and a manned business center to assist with meeting preparation.
For the business traveler accompanied by family, this hotel is ideally located within walking distance to dozens of restaurants and the shops on Michigan Avenue. Their Very Important Kid program offers organized family site-seeing trips through the concierge's desk, baby accessories for those traveling with infants, in-room Nintendo systems and on-demand movies for older children, and evening delivery of milk and cookies.
Hotel Allegro, 171 West Randolph Street
Built in 1926 in Chicago's downtown Loop district, Hotel Allegro is not your ordinary chain hotel. Allegro's 483 guest rooms, each decorated in one of nine different art deco styles, combine sophistication with funk for an upbeat overnight experience.
Allegro's 13 meeting rooms offer accommodations for up to 400 people, each equipped with high-speed Internet access, fax machine, dual-line speaker phones, data ports, an onsite audio/visual company and customized catering.
When traveling with family, Hotel Allegro's location brings you up close to theaters, shopping, fine and casual dining and numerous attractions. Geared toward the family business traveler, Allegro offers baby-sitting services for working parents, in-room baby accessories and a concierge staff to plan a family-oriented site-seeing schedule for non-meeting times.
Essex Inn, 800 South Michigan Avenue
Situated across from Grant Park and Lake Michigan, the Essex Inn is located amidst Soldier Field, McCormick Place and the Magnificent Mile shopping district. With 254 guest rooms and suites and four banquet rooms with more than 3,000 square feet of meeting space, The Essex Inn provides travelers with uncompromising accommodations.