"A good value and convenient to downtown"
1 MIDCITY PLAZA
CHICAGO, IL 60661
1 MILE WEST OF DOWNTOWN
The Quality Inn Downtown is a tourist class hotel located in downtown Chicago. The hotel is only 9 miles from Midway Airport, and just four blocks to Union station. Guests arriving by car will find The Quality Inn conveniently located right off of 90/94(JFK Expressway). The Quality Inn is relatively close to the Merchandise Mart, and The Apparel Center. This hotel is one of the best values in the downtown Chicago area. The Quality Inn offers a fresh, contemporary decor and spacious, well-appointed guest rooms. An onsite restaurant offers room service from 7AM until 10PM. A sports bar is on the premises as well. The hotel's warm, welcoming, and friendly staff are ready to cater to their guests' every need. The Quality Inn is just 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.
