1200 EAST BANK DRIVE
SCHAUMBURG, IL 60173
SCHAUMBURG
The all-suite Candlewood Suites is conveniently located 12 miles from the O'Hare International Airport. Within easy access to downtown Chicago and McCormick Place, the largest convention facility in North America. This unusually elegant convention center on the shore of Lake Michigan was strongly influenced by the designs of Mies van der Rohe. The Six Flags Great America, is worth the drive from Candlewood Suites. From the hotel, guests can easily get to historic landmarks of the Sears Tower and Navy Pier. The practical Candlewood Suites does not boast a grandiose lobby but guest rooms exude an inviting warmth and comfort. One look at the spacious studio, one bedroom and studio double suites and you will realize the Candlewood Suites difference. Everything from an executive desk to home entertainment helps guests work smart and relax. Candlewood Suites offers workable, livable space, regardless of whether you stay in the studio or one bedroom. Enjoy the additional privacy of the one bedroom suite, completely separate bedroom and larger desk chair in living area, a sleeper sofa, extra closet space and tableware or two. Kitchens are fully equipped with pots and pans. The double suite also has CD player, full size refrigerator with ice- maker and full size dishwasher. Enjoy the extensive service at Candlewood Suites, convenient to where you want to be in Chicago.
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.
