Why you should experience Viceroy Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.
Viceroy Chicago is a sculptural luxury hotel where Gold Coast's Jazz Age architecture, Rush Street social history, preservation culture and contemporary design converge behind the reconstructed façade of Cedar Hotel.
Set along North State Street near East Cedar Street and just steps from Washington Square Park, the hotel incorporates the four-story brick and terra-cotta frontage of Cedar Hotel, a 1920s property designed by Rissman & Hirschfeld that became a fixture of the surrounding entertainment district. Goettsch Partners preserved and reconstructed that historic frontage before setting an 18-story glass tower behind it, developing a folding curtain-wall geometry from the argyle-like pattern embedded in the earlier masonry. TAL Studio shaped the interiors around a deliberately eclectic collection of modernist forms, metallic surfaces and art, while AvroKO designed the original restaurant environment and the restored neon Cedar Hotel sign was installed above the adjoining three-story lobby. The result is a hotel where Rissman & Hirschfeld, Goettsch Partners, TAL Studio and AvroKO connect nearly a century of Gold Coast hospitality through two dramatically different architectural languages.
What you should know about Viceroy Chicago.
Viceroy Chicago is best known for opening on September 1, 2017 as Viceroy Hotel Group's first Midwest property, a 150,000-square-foot project developed by Convexity Properties with Goettsch Partners as architect, TAL Studio directing hotel interiors and AvroKO responsible for the original restaurant design. The 18-story tower contains 180 rooms and suites and rises behind the dismantled and reconstructed four-story Cedar Hotel façade, while Goettsch Partners translated the historic masonry's argyle pattern into the folding geometry of the new glass curtain wall. Power Construction executed the project, Forefront Structural Engineers handled structural engineering and IMEG provided building engineering, with the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois granting the completed hotel a 2017 Award of Merit and Chicago Magazine naming it among Chicago's Best New Buildings of 2017. Goettsch Partners subsequently received a 2021 Pro+ Awards Gold Award for the hotel, while the MICHELIN Guide now recognizes Viceroy Chicago with One MICHELIN Key. The collaboration among Convexity Properties, Goettsch Partners, TAL Studio, AvroKO and Viceroy Hotel Group produced a rare Chicago hotel whose architectural character depends equally upon a reconstructed 1920s façade and a distinctly twenty-first-century tower.
James Beard Award finalist Lee Wolen established the hotel's original culinary character in 2017 through Somerset and Devereaux in partnership with Boka Restaurant Group, bringing the reputation developed at Boka into an opening program complemented by James Beard-nominated pastry chef Meg Galus and her house-made breads, pastries, sundaes and Somerset chocolate bars. Stephen Gillanders assumed Somerset's culinary direction in 2020 after establishing S.K.Y. in Pilsen, introducing a new chapter for the restaurant after its original Boka era concluded. Executive Chef Verlord Laguatan now leads the Viceroy Hotel culinary program with Executive Sous Chef David Owoeye, while the rooftop has evolved into Pandan, whose Southeast Asian-influenced drinks and cooking included grilled oysters, barbecue pork skewers and Filipino coconut cake cooked over binchotan during its 2025 James Beard Awards weekend program. Together, Lee Wolen, Meg Galus, Stephen Gillanders, Verlord Laguatan and David Owoeye trace a culinary lineage that has continually supplied named creative authorship to Viceroy Chicago since its 2017 debut.
How to fold Viceroy Chicago into your trip.
Viceroy Chicago works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing Gilded Age domestic architecture, medical collecting and the preservation of Chicago's own history across the Near North Side.
Begin at Richard H. Driehaus Museum, where Samuel Mayo Nickerson's 1883 residence cost $450,000 to construct under Burling & Whitehouse, with interiors by R. W. Bates & Co., William August Fiedler and George A. Schastey & Co., before Richard H. Driehaus sponsored its restoration from 2003 to 2008. Continue north to International Museum of Surgical Science, occupying Eleanor Robinson Countiss's 1917 mansion, where Howard Van Doren Shaw adapted Ange-Jacques Gabriel's Petit Trianon at Versailles with a fourth floor and carriage drive before Dr. Max Thorek and the International College of Surgeons acquired the house and opened the museum in 1954. Conclude at Chicago History Museum, founded as the Chicago Historical Society in 1856, rebuilt after the Great Chicago Fire destroyed its first collection and eventually moved in 1932 into the Graham, Anderson, Probst & White building whose holdings included Charles F. Gunther's collection, Abraham Lincoln's deathbed and George Washington's compass. The progression moves from Nickerson and Driehaus's decorative arts through Shaw and Thorek's unusual intersection of domestic architecture and medical history into Chicago's institutional memory, surrounding Viceroy Chicago with three distinct expressions of the city's culture of collecting and preservation.
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