Chicago Meeting Professionals Guide - 2026
Chicago hotel collections
2025-12-26 08:17:20
The city offers four distinctive hotel collections for planners to choose from, each with properties clustered close to restaurants, attractions, and other meeting and special event venues.
McCORMICK PLACE CAMPUS COLLECTION
The largest convention center in the Western Hemisphere, Chicago’s McCormick Place hosts some of the world’s biggest and most prestigious conventions, conferences, and trade shows. Its four buildings — West, North, South, and Lakeside Center — offer more than 3.3 million square feet of exhibit and meeting space. Three McCormick Place Campus Collection hotel brands are conveniently connected via climate-controlled skybridges, with three Hilton properties combined under one roof, offering a total of 2,929 hotel rooms.
McCORMICK PLACE CAMPUS COLLECTION INCLUDES:
• Hyatt Regency McCormick Place Chicago
• Marriott Marquis Chicago
• Hilton Garden Inn Chicago McCormick Place
• Hampton Inn Chicago McCormick Place
• Home2 Suites by Hilton Chicago McCormick Place
NAVY PIER CONVENTION COLLECTION
Navy Pier, situated on scenic Lake Michigan, is a Chicago icon. The historic landmark offers more than 242,000 square feet of meeting and exhibit space that includes the breathtaking domed Aon Grand Ballroom. Navy Pier is also home to a variety of restaurants, entertainment that includes the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and attractions like the sky-high Centennial Wheel. Eight Navy Pier Convention Collection hotels offer a combined 4,738 hotel rooms — all within walking distance of Navy Pier.
NAVY PIER CONVENTION COLLECTION INCLUDES:
• Sable at Navy Pier Chicago, Curio Collection by Hilton (the only hotel located on Navy Pier)
• The Wade (formerly the W Chicago Lakeshore)
• DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Chicago – Magnificent Mile
• Embassy Suites by Hilton Chicago Downtown Magnificent Mile
• Loews Chicago Hotel
• Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk
• InterContinental Chicago Magnificent Mile
• The Westin Michigan Avenue Chicago
Inspired by Chicago’s award-winning urban oasis, the Millennium Park Collection is made up of five hotels that offer a combined total of 3,906 hotel rooms and more than 409,000 square feet of meeting and exhibit space between them. The hotels are located within walking distance of downtown Millennium Park, Chicago’s cultural green space that celebrates art like the popular Cloud Gate sculpture (affectionately called “The Bean”), music and architecture (with concerts at the Frank Gehry-designed Jay Pritzker Pavilion), and the stunning landscape design of the Lurie Garden.
MILLENNIUM PARK COLLECTION INCLUDES:
• Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park
• Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel, Chicago
• Swissotel Chicago
• Hyatt Regency Chicago
• The St. Regis Chicago
This hotel collection is named for Chicago’s world-famous shopping district — The Magnificent Mile. Stretching from the historic Michigan Avenue Bridge to upscale Oak Street, this bustling boulevard is known for its luxury boutiques and shopping centers, trendy dining spots, thrilling attractions like the 360 CHICAGO observation deck, and architectural gems that include the Wrigley Building and Historic Water Tower (which survived the Great Chicago Fire in 1871). Together, the six hotels of The Mag Mile Collection offer more than 201,000 square feet of meeting and exhibit space, along with 3,935 hotel rooms.
THE MAG MILE COLLECTION INCLUDES:
• InterContinental Chicago Magnificent Mile
• The Gwen, a Luxury Collection Hotel
• Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile
• Omni Chicago Hotel
• The Westin Michigan Avenue Chicago
• The Drake Hotel
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