Where to stay in Chicago for a convention

Know before you go

• The train stops inside

  Metra Electric stops on Level 2.5 of the Grand Concourse in the South Building, about seven minutes from downtown.

• Four buildings, check yours

  North, South, West and Lakeside Center. Find your building first: the venue page sorts the hotels for the main buildings (North, South and West) or for Lakeside Center.

• O'Hare by train

  The CTA Blue Line runs 24 hours; change at Clark/Lake to a southbound Green Line train to Cermak-McCormick Place. The Green Line does not run all night, so check its hours for a very late or early flight.

• Hotels joined to the halls

  The Hyatt Regency McCormick Place is connected, and the Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton Inn and Home2 Suites building has a skybridge to the West Building.

Venues in Chicago

• McCormick Place11 hotels compared · closest: connectedFour buildings at 2301 S Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, North, South, West and Lakeside Center, with the Metra station inside the campus. Biggest events: RSNA, Midwest Clinic and ProMat.

Where to stay by area

The hotels themselves, ranked by time to the hall, are on each venue page.

• On the campus Closest to the halls

  Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton Inn and Home2 Suites share one building on Cermak Road with a skybridge to the West Building, 1 minute on our walking route. Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, connected to the convention center, and Marriott Marquis Chicago are 3 minutes.

• Chinatown On foot or by rideshare

  West of the campus, SpringHill Suites Chicago Chinatown on Wentworth Avenue is 16 minutes on foot from the West Building on our walking route, or a short rideshare.

• South Loop, on the Green Line By Green Line

  Hotels around Roosevelt station are one stop north of Cermak-McCormick Place on the Green Line. The station, at E Cermak Road and S State Street, is about two blocks from the northwest corner of the West Building.

• Downtown, the Loop and Michigan Avenue By Metra Electric

  Metra Electric runs from downtown to the McCormick Place station inside the campus in about seven minutes, and the #3 King Drive bus runs along Michigan Avenue with stops at many downtown hotels.

Getting in and around

• From O'Hare (ORD)

  The CTA Blue Line runs 24 hours from the lower level of the parking garage; from Terminal 5, take the free ATS to Terminal 2 or 3 first. In the Loop, change at Clark/Lake to a southbound Green Line train for Cermak-McCormick Place.

• From Midway (MDW)

  Take the CTA Orange Line to Roosevelt and change to the southbound Green Line, one stop to Cermak-McCormick Place.

• Metra Electric

  The McCormick Place station is on Level 2.5 of the Grand Concourse in the South Building, so the train stops inside the campus.

• CTA buses

  Routes #3 King Drive and #21 Cermak serve McCormick Place; the bus drop-off is at 2301 S Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, between the main North/South and West Building entrances.

• Show shuttles

  Many organizers run shuttles from groups of downtown hotels with rooms blocked for their attendees, McCormick Place says; RSNA, for one, gives guests of its official hotels shuttle service and Metra tickets.

Flying in? Hotels near O'Hare Airport by time to your terminal