Hotel rooms can be dirty, especially in a populated city like Chicago. Services in some hotels are much to be desired at times. In times of economic distress all over the world you can expect certain hotels to have this problem, especially if they are not reputed, yet cheap and only student friendly. In order to avail good rooms, comfortable bedding and access to clean toilets and floors, you should look amongst chain hotels known for cheap rates like Holiday Inn, Heart of Chicago, Best Western and Tremont Hotel.

While availing hotels remember to check for pictures of the hotel rooms. Places like dormitories and dirt-cheap accommodation houses can be secretive about their rooms, and only talk about them. Reputed hotels market their rooms in pictures, if they are actually clean and look clean. However, reviews are actually the best option to find out whether hotels are actually clean.

You will often find strangers at the airport offering accommodation almost for free. Not only is it unsafe to go to an unknown accommodation, but cleanliness, reputation of the hotel and other factors also become bleak when someone makes offers as desperate as that. They may offer you great locations such as downtown and River North and West End, but you never know which room you will get.

In order to ensure that your vacation will be spent in clean rooms, ensure that you find a hotel that has been in the news for its room service standards. Most places, which are specially meant for extended stay, will let you rest assured about smog and black patches coming through with the mist, mostly in winters in Chicago's industrial areas.