The Hyatt Regency O'Hare has hosted conventions on...

The Hyatt Regency O'Hare has hosted conventions on and off through the years and went through a remodelling process in 2006-7 that effectively gutted the old sports bar (a favorite of mine) and replaced with a much more public, open-spaced that - while nice - is a little too ESPN SportsCenter (read: way too many plasma TVs) for my liking. The older steakhouses and a good deal of the 60's-70's feel of the lobby's design got the axe as well. The rooms are not, I repeat, not big and although well-supplied are just too damn small from the economy-sized suites on down. For the length of time it was closed, they could've done a lot more with the rooms than they did. More geared for business travellers than vacationers or most convention-goers, SF or otherwise. Has been expensive to stay at in the past and probably won't change that much in the future, either.