Olympia Centre

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Exterior · Chicago, United States · 1986

Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · 2013-06-27 · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 4000×3000

The Allerton Hotel is a 25-story 360 foot (110 m) hotel skyscraper along the Magnificent Mile in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois. It was the first building in the city to feature pronounced setbacks and towers resulting from the 1923 zoning law. The building was designated a Chicago Landmark on May 29, 1998. When the Allerton first opened, it had fourteen floors of small apartment-style rooms for men and six similar floors for women, with a total of 1,000 rooms. The hotel also boasted social events, gold, sports leagues, a library, solarium, and an in-house magazine. An

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