"Hyatt's flagship property"
151 E WACKER DR
CHICAGO, IL 60601
MAGNIFICENT MILE-CHICAGO
The Hyatt Regency is a deluxe, business-oriented hotel located on the Magnificent Mile, overlooking the Chicago River. The hotel is within walking distance of several of the city's museums and cultural attractions. For the guests' convenience, the Hyatt Regency has five onsite bars and restaurants. 24-hour room service is available and the hotel has an onsite fitness facility. This luxurious hotel is Hyatt's flagship property and has received numerous awards for excellence in hospitality and cuisine. The Hyatt's guest rooms are well appointed and comfortable. All rooms feature upscale amenities like an oversized bath, full-length mirror, in-room bar and a safe. Video messaging, express checkout and an account review are available through the guest room television. The Hyatt Regency Hotel offers excellent dining options onsite, and is only steps away from shopping, entertainment and other fine dining 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.
