Why you should experience Residence Inn Chicago Downtown Grand Mile in Chicago, Illinois.
Residence Inn Chicago Downtown Grand Mile is a layered Streeterville hotel where a 1980s advertising headquarters, a Paris-designed luxury conversion and Marriott's contemporary extended-stay model occupy successive chapters of the same vertical address.
Set along East Erie Street near North Rush Street and just steps from the Richard H. Driehaus Museum, the hotel occupies the upper 13 floors of a 20-story office tower begun in 1984 as the FCB Center, corporate headquarters for advertising agency Foote, Cone & Belding, which took the upper ten floors when the building opened in 1986. The structure later housed DraftFCB before Geller Capital Partners and Wanxiang America Real Estate Group undertook a 2015-2016 conversion that retained offices below while transforming floors eight through 20 into Conrad Chicago. Epstein served as architect of record and structural, civil and building-systems engineer, Pierre-Yves Rochon authored the guestrooms and public interiors, and Puccini Group developed the hospitality spaces within a 227,603-square-foot tower rising 259 feet above Erie Street. The result is a hotel whose present character inherits three distinct eras, Foote, Cone & Belding's corporate Chicago, Laurence Geller and Pierre-Yves Rochon's luxury intervention and The Prime Group's 2024 Residence Inn, without erasing the architectural chronology that produced them.
What you should know about Residence Inn Chicago Downtown Grand Mile.
Residence Inn Chicago Downtown Grand Mile is best known for opening in 2024 as a 289-suite Marriott property after The Prime Group repositioned the former Conrad Chicago, converting an address originally engineered for offices and subsequently rebuilt for luxury hospitality into one of the Residence Inn brand's most unusual urban properties. Conrad Chicago had opened in November 2016 with 287 guestrooms and 24 suites after hotelier Laurence Geller enlisted Pierre-Yves Rochon for the interiors and Puccini Group for the culinary spaces, while Geller Capital Partners and Wanxiang America Real Estate Group drove the redevelopment. Richard Sandoval conceived three original restaurants, Baptiste & Bottle, rooftop Noyane and Il Tavolino, while Chicago chef James Lintelmann, previously executive chef at Baptiste & Bottle and Noyane, worked with Sandoval on the bourbon-driven American and contemporary Japanese programs that established the building's first hospitality-era culinary identity. The Prime Group's April 2024 reopening replaced the Conrad flag with Residence Inn while increasing the inventory to 289 suites under Marriott International management, giving 101 East Erie an unusual progression from advertising headquarters to five-star hotel to extended-stay property across less than four decades.
The building's hospitality authorship is unusually legible because the Conrad conversion required an office tower to be reorganized vertically rather than rebuilt from the ground up, placing guestrooms on floors eight through 18, meeting spaces on 19 and the original arrival, lounge and restaurant program on 20. Pierre-Yves Rochon brought to Chicago the Paris practice responsible for hospitality interiors across Europe, Asia and North America, while Epstein coordinated that design within a structure whose lower seven floors remained separately occupied, making the 2016 project effectively a building-within-a-building. The culinary lineage entered another chapter in 2026 when Chicago-based Roanoke Hospitality introduced Altezza Rooftop, with Executive Chef Jacob Arenas developing its Italian aperitivo-inspired menu alongside Roanoke's vice president of culinary Rick Tramonto, the two-time James Beard Award recipient associated with Chicago's former Tru. Foote, Cone & Belding, Geller, Rochon, Sandoval, Lintelmann, The Prime Group, Arenas and Tramonto consequently connect advertising, international hotel design and Chicago restaurant culture across the building's successive identities, giving the current Residence Inn a deeper institutional biography than its relatively recent opening suggests.
How to fold Residence Inn Chicago Downtown Grand Mile into your trip.
Residence Inn Chicago Downtown Grand Mile works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing how private wealth, experimental art and ecclesiastical architecture shaped the blocks where Streeterville meets the Gold Coast.
Begin at Richard H. Driehaus Museum, where First National Bank of Chicago founder Samuel Mayo Nickerson commissioned Burling & Whitehouse to create his 24,000-square-foot residence, completed in 1883 for $450,000 with interiors by R. W. Bates & Co., William August Fiedler and George A. Schastey & Co.; the material richness earned the house its enduring Marble Palace sobriquet before Richard H. Driehaus later made it the setting for his decorative-arts collection. Continue to Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, founded in 1967 under founding director Jan van der Marck before Josef Paul Kleihues won the commission for its present home, his first American project, which opened in June 1996 after a $45 million construction program and drew more than 25,000 people during its 24-hour public preview. Conclude at Fourth Presbyterian Church, where Ralph Adams Cram designed the sanctuary, Howard Van Doren Shaw developed the courtyard parish buildings, Charles Connick created the stained glass and Frederic C. Bartlett directed the sanctuary decoration for a complex dedicated in 1914, six years before the Michigan Avenue Bridge accelerated the commercial transformation of the avenue around it. The progression moves from Nickerson's Gilded Age collecting through van der Marck and Kleihues's experimental art institution into Cram, Shaw, Connick and Bartlett's collaborative Gothic composition, revealing the dense cultural authorship surrounding Residence Inn Chicago Downtown Grand Mile beyond East Erie Street.
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