I dined at a Chicago hotel designed for Gilded Age elites. It felt like being inside a painting

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The preserved hotel lobby and bar nod at its Gilded Age history.
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I dined at the Lockwood Lobby Bar, the restaurant inside Chicago's Palmer House hotel.
The current Palmer House originally opened in 1873 and was rebuilt in 1925.
The grand lobby features…

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