The Magnificent Mile in Chicago is situated in the very northern part of the Michigan Avenue in the centre of the Lake Shore Drive and the Chicago River. It is a great Chicago travel tourist attraction that is the Chicago's version of Champs-Elysees, the grand boulevard featured with the unique museums, ritzy hotels, restaurants and shops.

Architectural landmarks such as the Tribune Tower and the John Hancock Center can easily be seen in abundance along this avenue. Building booms in 1920s, 70s as well as 90s, turned the low rise Michigan Avenue Bridge, residential street and Magnificent Mile into the financially thriving destination bordered by the high skyscrapers.

All big brand names in the area of shopping are actually present at this destination ranging from Niketown to Saks Fifth Avenue to Disney to Bloomingdales. The huge sidewalks, often liked with its well maintained flowerbeds drive the attention of a large number of visitors who travel to Chicago, the regions around this brilliant Magnificent Mile are among the Chicago's wealthiest.

In the year 1947, at the time when North Michigan Avenue became the most fashionable destination of Chicago, Arthur Rubloff, the property developer having the ambitious plans for avenue dubbed the place as Magnificent Mile. Later the name stuck and was also trademarked in the year 2001.

The Chicago Magnificent Mile also provides more than 3.1 million square feet retail space, 275 restaurants, 2 exclusive museums, 460 stores, 51 hotels and a wide gamut of entertainment and sightseeing attractions to over 22 million guests every single year. Recent improvements to this Magnificent Mile consist of the extra flower packed medians and trees which highlight the change of seasons. These aesthetic improvements complement the exclusive architectural beauty popular to Chicago.

The Magnificent Mile even highlights the critically acclaimed food joints like the Spiaggia, The Pump Room, the Signature Room at 95th, the Prime Rib and the Spago among various others. The visitors can even find elegant and splendid accommodations at the high class hotels like Park Hyatt Hotel, Ritz Carlton Chicago, Le Meridien Chicago, Four Seasons Hotel Chicago and The Peninsula Chicago.

Some of the top retail companies of Chicago are found easily on the Magnificent Mile like the Bloomingdale's, Lord & Taylor, Cartier, Nordstrom, Nieman Marcus, Salvatore Ferragamo, Burberry, Ermenegildo Zegna and Giorgio Armani. While the warm season allows for the fantastic flowers and landscaping, the entire holiday season is special as well as it offers lighted trees that line the streets, horse drawn carriages and decorated windows.

Magnificent Mile Address
625 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 401
Chicago, IL 60611

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Tel: (312) 409-5560
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Website: http://www.themagnificentmile.com