Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1904 — LARGEST HOTEL IN THE WORLD. [ARTICLE]

LARGEST HOTEL IN THE WORLD.

Aooording to a press dispatch from that oity, Chicago is to have the largest hotel in tbe world It will oost $10,000,000, will be twenty-two stories high and will dwarf in size’and magnificence, it is promised, any strnoture of the kind ever ereoted. The builders and owners will be a syndicate of Ohioago and eastern capitalists headed by Otto Young. The hotel will occupy property measuring 400 feet in length by 171 feet in depth on MioLigan avenue, two blooks south of the Auditorium. The new hotel will be the the highest building in Chioago in point of stories, with the exceptions of the Masonic temple.