The mansion spent most of the 20th century cut up into apartments before being turned back to single-family use in the late ...

The Palmers' mansion was designed by Henry Ives Cobb ... she left them to the Art Institute of Chicago. Potter Palmer made his first millions with a dry-goods store. Among his innovations were ...

The Palmer House also claims that ... Situated in the heart of Chicago's Loop, the hotel was opened on 26 September 1871 by businessman Potter Palmer as a wedding gift to his wife, Bertha, but ...

On Saturday, March 22, the Glen Ellyn Historical Society presents historian and author Laurie Russell in a program about “The Queen of Chicago,” Bertha Honoré Palmer. The program, “Bertha ...