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Albert Pick III, whose father owned a major hotel chain, was an investment executive and philanthropist who held leadership positions with the Union League Club of Chicago and the Notebaert Nature ...
This will be the 9th time — barring a trade — the Chicago Bears have owned the No. 10 pick. Yet, half of those players never played here.
Chicago's elite held their soirées in those rooms, along with two others rooms named the Elizabethan and the Pompeian, the hotel says. The hotel was renamed the Congress Hotel in 1911.
The Pick-Congress participated in the citywide pact with the hotel union and had good enough relations with unions that it served as the founding site for the Coalition of Labor Union Women in 1974.
Two men are dead following a shooting outside the Congress Hotel in Chicago's South Loop.
The sign atop the historic Congress Plaza Hotel joins more modern architecture along Michigan Ave. Thursday, May 30, 2013, in Chicago. Striking workers at the downtown Chicago hotel are making an ...
The longest strike in America ended yesterday when the union representing workers at the Congress Hotel in Chicago tacitly admitted defeat at the hands of an owner whose iron resolve to break the ...
Employees of Chicago's Congress Hotel on South Michigan Avenue received word overnight that the nearly 10-year strike outside the hotel's front doors is over.
Two armed men robbed five people early Saturday at the Congress Plaza Hotel in the South Loop, police said.
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A man has been charged in a deadly shooting outside the Congress Plaza Hotel in the South Loop on Monday. Marquis Watkins, 39, has been charged with two counts of first degree ...
Despite city opposition and an ongoing strike, Congress Plaza Hotel on S. Michigan Ave. will finally obtain a permit to build an outdoor café.