Omni Chicago Hotel & Suites Magnificent Mile

The Rare Hotel Where Every Room Is Actually a Suite

Michigan Avenue sells a lot of things at a premium, and square footage is usually one of them. The Omni Chicago breaks that pattern by design: all 347 rooms are suites, each with a separate bedroom and living area divided by French doors, on one of the most expensive retail streets in the Midwest. It is a 25-story, all-suite format that most of the Mag Mile's big-name hotels simply do not offer at a comparable rate, and it is the single clearest reason to choose this address over its immediate neighbors.

Why It Works

A 2015 renovation touched every one of the 347 suites along with the public spaces and meeting rooms, and the interiors that came out of it lean specifically into Chicago architectural history rather than generic luxury-hotel neutrals: materials and tones drawn from Louis Sullivan and the Chicago School, quatrefoil-patterned carpets and arc floor lamps that nod to the city's Art Deco period, dressed in a brown, cream and navy palette. It is a hotel that looked to its own city for its design language instead of importing one, and the suite format gives every guest, not just the top-tier bookings, the extra room that justifies it.

Why This Location

The address sits at Michigan Avenue and Huron, on the quieter southern stretch of the Magnificent Mile, roughly a five-minute walk from Water Tower Place and the shops clustered near the John Hancock Center a few blocks north. Navy Pier is a longer walk east, reachable faster by the hotel's seasonal trolley pickup nearby. It is close enough to the Mile's shopping core to use on foot, but positioned far enough south of the densest retail blocks to stay calmer in the evenings.

Fast Facts

• Price: Premium, though competitive for the suite format

• Vibe: Chicago School-inspired design in an all-suite Michigan Avenue tower

• Rooms: 347, all suites with separate bedroom and living areas

• Best For: Families and longer stays that need the extra room, Michigan Avenue shoppers, business travelers who want space to work

• Our Favorite Thing About the Hotel: 676 Restaurant & Bar's use of produce grown in the hotel's own rooftop garden

• Dining: 676 Restaurant & Bar, New American cuisine with Michigan Avenue views

• Amenities: Fitness center, concierge, valet parking, meeting space, pet-friendly rooms

• Attractions: Water Tower Place, the John Hancock Center, Michigan Avenue shopping, Navy Pier

A Rooftop Garden on Michigan Avenue

676 Restaurant & Bar, the hotel's ground-floor dining room, draws part of its produce from a garden the hotel maintains on its own roof — an unusual claim for a hotel sitting on one of the densest commercial blocks in the Midwest, and a detail that shows up directly on the New American menu. Large windows over Michigan Avenue make it as much a people-watching perch as a restaurant, with an adjoining lounge built for a pre-dinner cocktail or a nightcap without leaving the building.

Suites Built on Chicago School Design

The suite tiers run from Deluxe rooms with a wet bar through Executive suites with six windows and panoramic skyline views, up to the Governor Suites on the hotel's top floors, which add a full living room, a dining area and a second bathroom. Across every tier, the French-door separation between sleeping and living space is the constant, and it is what makes this hotel function as well for a family splitting a sofa bed from the bedroom as it does for an executive taking back-to-back meetings from a dining table.

Before You Book

The hotel's exact construction history is not well documented publicly, so travelers interested in the building itself rather than its design should not expect a landmark backstory here — the appeal is the suite format and the Chicago School-referenced interiors, not a historic structure. Valet parking is the practical option in this stretch of Michigan Avenue, where street parking is both scarce and expensive. For the price of a standard room elsewhere on the Mile, this is one of the few addresses that delivers genuinely more space.