Composed of a 12-story main tower and connected three-story building, the Marriott Chicago O'Hare is 1 mile from the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, 3 miles from O’Hare International Airport, and 13 miles from downtown. The hotel is popular with conventioneers and tour groups, who gather in a central lobby with living-room-style seating.

Travelers hustle through the spacious marble, wood, and mirrored lobby to events and meetings. The lobby contains colorfully checked armchairs, bench couches, and a long black table bordered by sand-colored columns. Wood-trimmed skylights brighten a sitting area that features a couch and low-slung armchairs. Beyond the lobby is a six-story office atrium, a hotel restaurant, and a gift shop.

Business travelers and hipster vacationers appreciate the professional service and array of choices for mingling and relaxing such as the 33rd-floor Whiskey Sky Bar and the first-floor Wave Restaurant and Bar. The W Hotel's lobby offers comfortable lounging areas with a mirror-tiled waterfall behind the zig-zag marble reception desk, fresh flower and wheat-grass arrangments in white vases, carved-wood chairs, leather sofas and ottomans, wood floors, natural light, and ambient music.