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Urban spelunking: Chicago's legendary Blackstone Hotel
For decades, Chicago's Blackstone Hotel, 636 S. Michigan Ave., has meant history to me: jazz history. But the history at this 1910 gem of a hotel - part of Marriott's Autograph Collection - runs much deeper than that.