The Drake, a Hilton Hotel, 140 East Walton Place, Chicago, Illinois, is a luxury, full-service hotel, located downtown on the lake side of Michigan Avenue two blocks north of the John Hancock Center and a block south of Oak Street Beach at the top of the Magnificent Mile. Overlooking Lake Michigan, it was founded in 1920, and soon became one of Chicago's landmark hotels and a longtime rival of the Palmer House.
The newly opened Drake Hotel in a 1920 picture postcard
The pink neon sign of The Drake (bottom-center-left)
Drake Hotel (lower right) and the East Lake Shore Drive District from Oak Street Beach
Michigan Avenue (Chicago)
Michigan Avenue is a north-south street in Chicago that runs at 100 east on the Chicago grid. The northern end of the street is at Lake Shore Drive on the shore of Lake Michigan in the Gold Coast Historic District. The street's southern terminus is at Sibley Boulevard in the southern suburb of Dolton, but like many other Chicago streets, it exists in several disjointed segments.
Michigan Avenue in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago
A 1921 edition of Collier's magazine featuring Michigan Avenue from Grant Park
Michigan Avenue under renovation in the 1950s with the Art Institute of Chicago visible in the background
Historic Michigan Boulevard District in 1911