ChicagoThe Loop and the Riverwalk, Millennium Park's Cloud Gate, Wrigley Field, and the West Loop restaurant boom along Fulton Market

Chicago is the third-largest city in the United States — 2.7 million residents on the southwest shore of Lake Michigan, the architecture capital where the modern skyscraper was invented after the 1871 fire. The downtown Loop wraps Millennium Park (Cloud Gate, the Pritzker Pavilion, the Crown Fountain) and the Art Institute on Michigan Avenue; the Willis Tower Skydeck on Wacker and 360 Chicago over the Magnificent Mile frame the skyline; and the Chicago Riverwalk runs the Chicago Architecture Center boat-tour docks below street level. Wrigley Field has anchored Wrigleyville since 1914, the Museum Campus gathers the Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, and Adler Planetarium on a lakefront point, and the 18-mile Lakefront Trail strings North Avenue Beach to Navy Pier to Hyde Park.

Our Chicago rentals concentrate in the West Loop / Fulton Market, River North, and Lincoln Park — the West Loop condos put you steps from Randolph Street's restaurant row (Girl & the Goat, Au Cheval, The Publican) and two blocks from the Green/Pink Line "L"; the River North high-rises trade on skyline-and-river views near the Magnificent Mile; and the Lincoln Park studios sit a block from the free Lincoln Park Zoo and a short Red Line hop from Wrigley Field. The Blue Line runs straight from downtown to O'Hare in 45 minutes, so most guests skip the rental car entirely.