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Hotel bar1933 · inside The Drake

Chicago, IL · 19 mi from Elk Grove Village

Coq d'Or

Haunt 4 of 5
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The house

Coq d’Or opened in 1933 in The Drake, the Gold Coast hotel that still behaves like a private house. The Lady in Red is the name attached to a New Year’s Eve: a woman in scarlet who found her husband with someone else and went out a tenth-floor window. The parents of Bobby Franks, murdered in 1924, lived here afterward. The lounge is walnut, gold, and public. You do not need a keycard to drink where the hotel’s dead still prefer the bar to the lake.

A serious cocktail. Order food if the kitchen is up. This is not a dive. Sit as if the Lady might still walk through looking for a husband who is not there.

The Ghostly Gourmet

Field note

Notes stay on this device. We do not ship your supper to a server.

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