MAJOR LEAGUE
CHICAGO, IL
DISTANCE 180 miles
DRIVE TIME 3 hours
sneakers on the wall? An athlete once laced those up. The bleacher seating in the lobby? Stomped by fans in Chicago gymnasiums for decades. The wooden tennis rackets rainbowing across the cafe, the ($195 per night, ) aren’t replicas. They’re the real deals, and co-owner Mike Downing, who has an antiques background, drew up a bunch of different plays for using these found icons of leisure creatively throughout the boutique hotel.
