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    When A Name Doesn't Quite Fit

    The Hotel Group didn't seek approval from Jane Addams' family before naming the hotel.
    by Scott Simon Oct 14, 2017 2 minutes
    Portrait of American social worker Jane Addams (1860 - 1935), early 1900s. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

    Does honoring someone really always honor them?

    Chicago's landmark old Carbon and Carbide Building, designed by the Burnham Brothers in 1929, and clad in black and green stone and gold leaf, to look like a champagne bottle during Prohibition, is currently a Hard

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