Blackstone Hotel

The Blackstone Hotel is a historic 290-foot (88 m) 21-story hotel located on the corner of Michigan Avenue and Balbo Drive in the Michigan Boulevard Historic District in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. The Blackstone is famous for hosting celebrity guests, including numerous U.S. presidents, for which it was known as the "Hotel of Presidents" for much of the 20th century, and for contributing the term "smoke-filled room" to political parlance.

Blackstone Hotel in The Hot War
The Democratic Party held a fundraiser at the Blackstone Hotel in September, 1952. President Harry Truman spoke at the fundraiser; his speech was largely a veiled admission that the Republican party would win the Congressional elections in November, and then the Presidency when that election took place the following year.