(1873-1937)

(1850-1871)

Tremont House (1850-1871, pictured right) was a the third hotel bearing this name constructed at the Southeast corner of Lake Street and Dearborn in Chicago, IL.^[1] It was a leading hotel in Chicago that served as the 1860 Republican National Convention Headquarters.^[1] Both Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas started their Senatorial campaigns from the balcony of this hotel.^[1] It was a 260 room hotel by early Chicago architect John M. Van Odsel,^[1] who is known as the architect of the Illinois Executive Mansion. This article is about the largest city of Illinois. ... The 1860 Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, nominated former U.S. Representative Abraham Lincoln for President and Maine Senator Hannibal Hamlin for Vice-President. ... Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American politician elected from Illinois as the 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865), and the first president from the Republican Party. ... Stephen A. Douglas Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813 - June 3, 1861), American politician from Illinois, was one of the Democratic Party nominees for President in 1860 (the other being John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky). ... The Illinois Executive Mansion is the official residence of the governor of Illinois. ...

The hotel burned to the ground a third time during the Great Chicago Fire. A Tremont Hotel (1873-1937, pictured left) was built on the site. During the interim, John Drake I bought a hotel at Michigan Avenue and Congress that served as the temporary New Tremont House.^[2] Drake bought this temporary Hotel as a successful bet that it would escape the fire the day the Tremont caught fire.^[2] Artists rendering of the fire, by John R Chapin, originally printed in Harpers Weekly The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from Sunday October 8 to early Tuesday October 10, 1871, killing hundreds and destroying about four square miles in Chicago, Illinois. ... The Michigan Avenue Bridge across the Chicago River. ...

George M. Pullman made his reputation as a building raiser before becoming famous for sleeping cars.^[3] In 1858, He lifted the Tremont hotel off of it's foundations and built new ones underneath. The inventor and industrialist was ridiculed by all of Chicago, but in the end, Pullman achieved the feat, which took hundreds of jack screws and hundreds of men.^{[citation needed]} George Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897) was an American inventor and industrialist. ... The sleeping car is a railroad car on a train with sleeping facilities. ...

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Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Host, William R. and Brooke Ahne Portmann, "Early Chicago Hotels," Arcadia Publishing, 2006, p. 11., ISBN 0-7385-4041-2.
2. ^ ^{a b} Host, William R. and Brooke Ahne Portmann, "Early Chicago Hotels," Arcadia Publishing, 2006, p. 29., ISBN 0-7385-4041-2.
3. ^ Leyendecker, Liston E. (2005). George Pullman and His Town. Encyclopedia of Chicago. Retrieved on February 27, 2007.