The listing also comes amid a mixed but still-active stretch in the Chicago area overall as the high-end market continues to ...

this is the oldest hotel in Chicago, and it claims (as do a dozen others) to be the longest continuously running hotel in North America. The Palmer House also claims that it was the largest hotel ...

A 19th-century mansion on Cedar Street, built by the onetime “Queen of Chicago ... Bertha Palmer exerted significant influence in the now-cherished interior design of the Palmer House Hotel ...

The asking price is just under $5 million, about $700,000 less than what the owner was asking for the property in 2010.

Just a year later, as the Palmer House Hotel neared completion, the Chicago Fire of 1871 gutted the city. When the Palmer House was rebuilt, Bertha and her husband moved into a suite there ...