Where one hotel goes, a high-rise follows. The Drake Hotel opened during the Roaring Twenties as a 21-floor complex with an unimaginable 495 rooms. By the 1960s it featured one of the most popular … ...

The fat lady hasn’t yet sung for the former Drake Hotel site — or the Macklowe family’s plans to develop it. Harry Macklowe and his son, ... 600,000 square foot tower. ...

Notable buildings on the list include the home of a legendary Chicago hotel, along with a distinguished and long-troubled Loop tower. The Brashears, who bought the fabled Gold Coast hotel 10 years ...

The site of the former Drake Hotel, recently named the most valuable development lot in the city, will be home to a 1,300-foot tall residential tower, the largest in the city.

The owners of the bar ren Drake Hotel site have just gotten Buildings Dept. approval to demolish 44 E. 57th St., one of several retail townhouses that stand in the way of a proposed 70-story projec… ...

The city's famed "Beefeater" - the term referring to the distinctively-dressed Yeomen Warders at the Tower of London - is marking his 40th anniversary at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel this week.

A Macklowe Properties-affiliated company has paid $5.35 million to buy out a lease at 38 East 57th Street, further consolidating control over the site where the family-owned firm has long planned t… ...

Time does have a way of standing still at the Drake. The Coq D’Or has the second liquor license ever issued in Chicago - the first went to the Berghoff. The hotel itself was founded in 1920.

A May 28 gas explosion caused significant damage to Realty Tower on East Federal Street. The blast killed Akil Drake and injured nine others. Building owner YO Properties 47 LLC decided June 17 to ...

Stambaugh Hotel LLC owns the Hilton Double Tree Hotel, 44 E. Federal Street, located on the other side of East Federal Street from the Realty Tower, and the parking lot behind the DoubleTree.