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The cow in the entrance hallway of the Lincoln Park Days Inn is Planet Chicowgo. She was part of the hugely successful Cows on Parade, Chicago’s 1999 Summer Public Art Exhibition. After she spent the summer at Huron & Michigan, we were unable to part with her at auction and she’s now our permanent guest here at the Days Inn hotel in Lincoln Park, Chicago. |
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Guests of the Lincoln Park Days Inn may also have wondered about furniture on the inner courtyard roof of the hotel. This is from the City’s 2001 public art program called Suite Home Chicago. Our suite of furniture is called Chicago’s Suite Heavenly Bodies and was also painted by Lois Hrejsa. The sarcophagus in the hotel lobby is left over from our 2006 King Tut Hotel Package. To partner with The Field Museum we had to decorate the hotel. |
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Rock & Roll Days Inn Many people still refer to the Lincoln Park hotel as the Rock & Roll Days Inn due to the many bands that have stayed here and subsequently become famous. Former Band and Artist guests at the Lincoln Park Days Inn include: |
Rachel Yamagata |
KMFDM |
Robyn Hitchcock |
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Bands staying at the hotel meant: discolored bathtubs from hair dye, Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love…, Sheryl Crowe rollerblading through the hotel lobby (not permitted), front desk clerk doing laundry for the Goo Goo Dolls, Alanis Morrisette bringing sushi to a front desk clerk, musicians sitting in the lobby playing the guitar,… |
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Bands still frequent the Days Inn hotel, but not nearly as much as in the Rock and Roll days. |
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Venues |
Abbey Pub - 4m |
Elbo Room - 1m |
Open End Gallery - 2.5m |
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1920’s History – The Diversey Arms Hotel In 1925 jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke lived in the building known at the time as the Diversey Arms Hotel (historic name of the Lincoln Park Hotel). He played with Charley Straight’s Orchestra at the Rendez-Vous Café located on the corner in the same building (at the time 622 Diversey -corner of Clark & Diversey). Another legend, Red Nichols, stayed with Bix for a while. |
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Joe E. Lewis also performed at the Rendezvous Café… JOE E. LEWIS MAKES COMEBACK - On January 28th, less than eleven weeks after his throat was slashed, Joe E. Lewis opened again at the Rendezvous here at 622 Diversey while bodyguards stood on the roof across the street to protect him. The place was sold out. Ted Healy, of "Three Stooges" fame and Sophie Tucker canceled other engagements to be in the show with him. |
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