Capital As you journey toward Chicago the Management of this Home of a Thousand Perfectly Appointed Homes is thinking with you.

Your approach to the Congress Hotel and Annex in Michigan Avenue, the world renowned Boulevard on the beautiful West Shore of Lake Michigan, responds at once to your ideal of location for quiet rest and pure air. Yet within easy walking distance you find yourself in the heart of Chicago's great Business, Shopping and Theater Center.

Your first glance at the Congress Hotel is satisfying. It awakens interest no matter under what conditions you view it. You are impressed as you enter with the atmosphere of perfect, quiet, exclusive service and a warm-hearted hospitality. There is in the policy of the Management of the Congress Hotel a warm-hearted desire to make you feel at home. Pompeian Fountain Room: A Masterpiece in Refined Splendor Your welcome begins at the curb. Alighting from the taxi you are a personality. The rule of the house is that guests are known by name. You are you, and you are individual, distinct and personal all during your stay. You feel at once that your visit is anticipated, and every little comfort prearranged especially for you, to the minutest detail.

If you are in Chicago on business you realize that the Congress Hotel and Annex is a business meeting place for busy people. Here is provided every convenience for the transaction of affairs. Commodious rooms for conferences, for conventions and for the display of merchandise. Everything is systematized that business may be transacted with dispatch. But as business is only part of life, this great hotel has equal attractions for the social side of human nature. Private dining-rooms and reception rooms afford adequate opportunity for entertainment. Florentine Banquet Hall You choose your room or suite as suits your convenience, assured of quiet, of light and perfect ventilation in any part of every floor. The safety of the Hotel and of all its guests and employes is of first moment. No hotel in the world has more completely safe-guarded precious human lives entrusted to its keeping than the Congress. After safety comes cleanliness, and a careful inspection is an assurance. Your home is not more free from dust, or any uncleanness than this big, quiet, roomy hotel.

Your rooms are large and airy, with commodious closets. The filtered air which flows ceaselessly through your apartments is tempered to just the right temperature throughout the year. Your luggage is unpacked by the deft hand of valet or maid, sent by the Management to assist you in getting settled. Lobby: Meeting Place of the World's Prominent People Your rooms and furnishings speak quiet elegance and true home comfort. Your wishes are as completely catered to as if the house was your private residence, and every deferential servant belonged to your personal establishment. It is this courtesy which is the very spirit of hospitality; the reflection of the Management, whose grasp of the essence of service has made the Congress Hotel a veritable Home of a Thousand Homes.

No hotel in the world contains within itself so many features of unusual interest as the Congress Hotel and Annex. A walk from your apartments will convince you instantly. From the Grand Lobby, a magnificent achievement in architecture and decoration, where onyx, mosaic and gold-bossed pilasters uprear a vaulted roof of extreme beauty, you may stroll down the Marble Hallway, famed throughout the civilized world; past Pompeiian Rooms, wherein gleams Elizabethian Room: A True Period Room the Tiffany Fountain, green crystal, limned with dull gold; past the Pool, by whose quiet side you may place your tiny table and lunch in delicious meditation, meanwhile observing the perfectly appointed grill; past the great Elizabethan Room, a page torn from the Golden Age of English History and on into a private art gallery, perfectly appointed, where the best modern masters gladly hang their chef d'ouvres. Along the opposite side of the Marble Hallway are small shops, exquisite, delicate, inviting inspection to displays of jewelry, millinery, confections, articles of virtu and bric a brac culled from the workshops of the world.

The Grand Dining Room, decorated in the style of Louis XVI is of itself a feature well worthy of detailed description; the German Room—Pomp-Grill Room—than which no hotel in the New World has a more interesting dining room. Upon the walls of the Lobby and in the reception rooms are hung originals from the brushes of such masters as Detaille, Achilles Fould, Grolleron and Chelminski. Pompeian Grill Your inspection will not be complete until you have made a trip through the vast kitchens, one of the most interesting features of the great hotel. Here Cleanliness is King! Stainless floors, alabaster walls, abundant air, and everywhere healthfulness and good cheer. Great pantries, sweet storerooms, ample closets lined high with glittering cut glass, with shining silver, with gleaming linen ready for your next call for luncheon or dinner. On every face you see honest pride in the work; immaculate in garb and person, chefs, cooks, pantry-men and lesser serving men prepare with infinite care for your entertainment. Utensils shining, radiant copper, resplendent brass, enamel aluminum and chinaware attest ardent pride in the great institution these men have served so long and so well. Louis XVI Dining Room: Perfect in Appointment and Service It is for you they toil, this unseen army. Your comfort, your pleasure, your entertainment is the goal of hospitality. It is for this the edifice was raised, for this the art centers of the world were searched, and for this the master craftsmen of seven continents wrought and toiled. For you, whether you come today, or tomorrow or next month or next year. All is ready, waiting, waiting—for you.

To see the world, see Chicago first. To see Chicago best—you are welcomed to the Congress Hotel.

Prepared by
Irving S. Paull
W.S. Goodnow

Illustrations by
Sam Stoltz
A. Fred Tellender