wrote about a mid-range residential hotel in river north turned halfway house turned medical office building; the late 2000s renovated removed the glazed terracotta cladding (booooo) but kept the Moana art glass up top
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Borrowing the Polynesian word for ocean to give an exotic sheen to an otherwise ordinary middle-class residential hotel, the Hotel Moana in Chicago housed mechanics, soldiers, typists, students, bail ...
