10300 WEST HIGGINS ROAD
ROSEMONT, IL 60018
ROSEMONT
The Best Western - O'Hare is a first class hotel located minutes from the world's busiest airport and convenient to downtown Chicago. The hotel has redesigned every inch of the Best Western - O'Hare with your comfort and safety in mind, from the refreshing, sparkling clean completely remodeled guest rooms to the finest fire safety system. The friendly staff is happy to provide you with any assistance you may require. The hotel offers you deluxe accommodations, reasonable rates and the kind of friendly Best Western service that says, "We're glad you're here!". The hotel is minutes to fine dining, shopping, and entertainment.
Downtown Chicago puts on what is perhaps the finest display of modern architecture in the world, from the prototype skyscrapers of the 1890s to Mies van der Rohe's modernist masterpieces, and the second tallest building in the world, the quarter-mile-high Sears Tower. The compact heart of Chicago is known as the Loop, because it's circled by the elevated tracks of the CTA "El" trains. For a first impression of downtown, start your explorations by seeing the energy, drive and unmasked greed exposed in the trading pits of the various commodity marketplaces. Half the world's wheat and corn (and pork belly futures) are bought and sold amid the cacophonic roar of the Chicago Board of Trade, housed in a gorgeous Art Deco tower. From the entrance at 141 W Jackson St, where it intersects with LaSalle Street, take the elevator to the fifth-floor visitor gallery (Mon-Fri 8am-1.15pm; free), where displays trace the evolution of the various frantic shouts and signals by which trade is actually carried out. A similarly energetic ballet goes on from the early hours on Chicago's stock options exchange, the largest in the US. At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, three blocks away at 30 S Wacker Drive (Mon-Fri 7.30am-3.15pm; free), precious metals, currencies and commodities are bought and sold to the tune of some $50 billion a day. The best time to visit the exchanges is just before the close of trade, when the pressure is at its peak and tempers are most frayed.
