Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
“The Purple Hotel was located at 4500 West Touhy Avenue in Lincolnwood, Illinois. Opened in 1962 as the Hyatt House Hotel, it was Hyatt's first Midwest hotel and became known for its purple brick exterior.”
Wikipedia article Purple Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 621 National Register listings published here for Cook County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Hyatt House Hotel: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evanston City Eng | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Morton Grove City Eng. - Own Crews | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Niles City Dept of Public Works | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Wilmette City Eng. - Own Crews | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lincolnwood, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lincolnwood | $15,000 | Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down. One tree fell onto a parked car on Keating Avenue. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Lincolnwood | - | Most of the hail was nickel size with the largest hail roughly half dollar size. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lincolnwood | - | A tree was blown down near Kedzie Avenue and Touhy Avenue. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lincolnwood | - | A large tree limb was snapped and partially fell onto a car. |
| August 2020 | Tornado (EF1) | Lincolnwood | - | A tornado with peak winds of 110 mph touched down in the Lincolnwood neighborhood of Chicago near the intersection of Lunt and Hamlin Avenues. Tree damage occurred along most of the path of the tornado. At least two city blocks were impassable due to fallen trees. Numerous cars were totaled after trees fell on them. Utility poles were leaning along Touhy Avenue, just east of St. Louis Avenue. Significant tree damage including snapped trees, large trees uprooted and trees and tree limbs on vehicles, occurred between California Avenue and Rogers Phillip Park. The most intense damage occurred approximately one mile west of Lake Michigan where widespread tree damage occurred including large trees 1 to 2 feet in diameter snapped and uprooted. Minor roof damage also occurred in this area. The tornado continued east to the Lake Michigan shore where it became a waterspout as it moved east of Fargo Beach Park. |
| August 2018 | Heavy Rain | Lincolnwood | - | Rainfall of 1.76 inches was measured in one hour. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Lincolnwood | - | Penny size hail was reported near Albion and California Roads. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Lincolnwood | - | Penny size hail was reported for ten minutes. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lincolnwood | - | Three trees were blown down. |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lincolnwood | - | A tree was split in half on Keystone Avenue by wind. Another tree was blown over and landed on a vehicle. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Lincolnwood | - | Penny size hail was reported along Lincoln Avenue and lasted 10 minutes. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Lincolnwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Lincolnwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Lincolnwood | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Lincolnwood | - | no account filed |
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Harrer Building | 1.1 miles | 1983 |
 | Sauganash Historic District | 1.7 miles | 2010 |
 | Forest, The, and Annex | 1.7 miles | 1984 |
 | Stoneleigh Manor | 1.7 miles | 1984 |
 | Dempster Street Station | 1.9 miles | 1996 |
 | Building at 1305-1307 Judson Avenue | 2.1 miles | 1984 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 13000553 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Cook County | All 621 listed properties in this county. |
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