When she was twenty-one, with a Catholic education and the only pedigree required in boomtown Chicago — wealth — she became engaged to Potter Palmer, then 44, a former dry-goods seller ...

Chicago’s 154-year-old Palmer House Hilton is the latest venue to tap into a glamorized legacy of Prohibition. Potter’s Bar is a speakeasy-style cocktail lounge that will require an entry ...

Situated in the heart of Chicago's Loop, the hotel was opened on 26 September 1871 by businessman Potter Palmer as a wedding gift to his wife, Bertha, but it burned down 13 days later in the Great ...