Downtown Chicago’s most tranquil wellness escape, our beautiful spa, spans three stories and includes private treatment rooms, two Finnish saunas, and a premier fitness center. Swim 14 stories above the Magnificent Mile in our historic indoor Olympic swimming pool, featuring its original 1920s Spanish tiles and a terra cotta Neptune fountain.

The building, home to InterContinental Chicago Magnificent Mile, was designed by legendary architect Walter W. Ahlschlager in 1929. Many of the building’s original architectural details remain: marble columns, bronze doorway, grand staircase, painted ceilings, cast-bronze friezes, and exotic Moorish-influenced gold dome.

Our hotel was originally built in 1929 as the men’s Medinah Athletic Club, during which time Olympic gold medalist and Tarzan actor, Johnny Wiessmuller, used the swimming pool to train. The building became a hotel in 1944, and opened as InterContinental Chicago Magnificent Mile in March 1990.

InterContinental Chicago Magnificent Mile is the only downtown Chicago hotel with direct entry from Michigan Avenue. Our signature bronze doors open onto the famed Magnificent Mile, just steps away from the city’s best shopping, fine dining, art galleries, museums, and theaters.