travel42 Hotel Review: Chicago Athletic Association Hotel

Chicago Athletic Association Hotel travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

This fully restored, neo-Gothic architectural gem, redesigned as a boutique-hotel, enjoys an affiliation with World of Hyatt to help fill its rooms. It is part of Hyatt's growing Unbound Collection of independent boutique-hotels.

The 11 floors of this vintage 1893 building, often simply called the CAA, were designed by Henry Ives Cobb as a private men's club with Turkish baths and a swimming pool before being converted to a hotel a decade ago. It is said t...