"Connected to McCormick Place Convention Center"
2233 S. MARTIN L. KING DRIVE
CHICAGO, IL 60616
DOWNTOWN
The Hyatt Regency McCormick Place is a deluxe hotel in the downtown Chicago area. The hotel is located within The McCormick Place Convention Center, connected by the enclosed 'Grand Concourse' pedestrian walkway to all three exposition buildings. The Hyatt is also convenient to Soldier Field, The Shedd Aquarium, Grant Park and other downtown attractions. The Hyatt has an indoor, heated swimming pool and a full-service fitness center. A bar and restaurant is on the premises for the guests' convenience. The Hyatt's oversized guest rooms are designed to accommodate today's modern business traveler and well appointed with workstations and high-speed Internet connections. These attractive rooms are decorated with modern colors and materials that create a relaxing, residential feel. Video messaging, checkout and account review is available on the guest room television. Room service is available 24 hours. This hotel offers full concierge services and a business center.The Hyatt-Regency McCormick is only minutes to many fine dining, shopping and entertainment venues.
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.
