Chicago’s Edgewater Beach Hotel was a unique and internationally famous resort that for half a century epitomized the high life and Chicago’s glitterati. Designed by architect-bon vivant Benjamin Marshall as a country club-like counterpart to his Blackstone Hotel, the Edgewater Beach Hotel was a place where famous athletes, stars of stage and screen, and political heavyweights mingled with ordinary people. National broadcasts from its Marine Room featured most of the legends of the big band era of jazz. Author John Holden has written about the hotel and will take you back to its glory days.
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