Ritz-Carlton Chicago

OLD: This luxury hotel has 434 guest rooms and 21,000 square feet of event space with five meeting rooms. The 9,000-square-foot ballroom, which has a ceiling fixture that contains more than 400,000 full-cut lead crystals, holds 1,200 people and is accompanied by an adjoining prefunction room. In May 2013 the hotel added dec Rooftop Lounge + Bar seating 57 or holding 100 for reception. Twelve floors above the street, the dec features a color-changing LED waved wall a stainless steel sculpture by David Sorenson which serves to frame the roof's numerous city views.