MILLENNIUM PARK — The Chicago Athletic Association Hotel and its various restaurants, including a Shake Shack and a rooftop bar overlooking Millennium Park, will open to the public next week.
The 241-room hotel conversion of the 19th Century Venetian-Gothic building at 12 S. Michigan Ave. will open Wednesday, May 27, a hotel spokeswoman said. Once open, the 13-story hotel will include a new Shake Shack, rooftop bar/restaurant Cindy's and The Cherry Circle Room, a restaurant from Land and Sea Dept., the team behind Longman & Eagle and Parson's Chicken & Fish.
The public is invited to tour the hotel before it opens its doors as part of a "field day" from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday.
Guests will be guided by hotel staff and the Chicago Architecture Foundation on the tour, joining other free "field day" activities including bocce, croquet and a fitness class on the nearby Jay Pritzker Pavilion lawn in Millennium Park, 201 E. Randolph St. Tube socks are required for the outdoor activities, the hotel said.
Chicago-based AJ Capital and John Pritzker, the son of Hyatt Hotels Founder Jay Pritzker, together paid $13 million in 2012 for the building. A hotel spokeswoman declined to disclose the project's total cost.
Click here to RSVP for the "field day" fitness class, and visit the hotel's website for more information.
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