The Ruins of the Purple Hotel
The Ruins of the Purple Hotel
Photographed by Eric Holubow, the unmistakable, can’t-miss-it building on the corner of Touhy and Lincoln in Lincolnwood has housed a number of different hotel chains over the decades, but it has long been known by its most obvious description: The Purple Hotel. Planned as the Hyatt-Lincolnwood, the Hyatt House-Chicago broke ground in January 1961, on the site of the Allgauers Fireside restaurant…
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