The hotel developed beside Grant Park around the World’s Columbian Exposition era and reflects Chicago tourism, conventions, architecture, and labor history.
Hull-House opened in 1889 as a settlement led by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr and became a center for education, labor reform, arts, and immigrant community work.
Part of present-day Lincoln Park occupies former cemetery ground, and the Couch tomb remains a visible reminder of nineteenth-century burial and park development.
Chicago is a living Chicago metropolitan area community whose documented history and preservation landscape explain why ghost traditions developed around selected streets, buildings, and burial grounds.