Jimmy Carter slept here, and other tales from the Guyon Hotel in West Garfield Park
The Hotel Guyon was built on a conviction that there was money to be made in catering to middle-class aspirations. In 1928, high-rise living was a prerogative of the well-to-do. They inhabited lakefront towers, some topped with penthouses, on the North Side and in Hyde Park. Chicago’s middle class resided inland. Yet J. Louis Guyon purposely plunked down a 289-room, 10-story hotel in the ...
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