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This hotel/hostel hybrid, opened in aboriginal 2017, takes its conceptual cue from Chicago Park District fieldhouses—the winter-proof barrio that serve as amusement and association centers. The Instagram-baiting adornment makes abundant use of repurposed able-bodied accessories like old scoreboards and amphitheater bleachers; an accession blind over the antechamber is fabricated up of 400 board tennis rackets. Think of the artful as the Chicago Able-bodied Association’s kid brother.
The allowance alternative ability not accomplish FieldHouse Jones your aboriginal aces for a staycation: Apart from a brace of queen and abounding rooms, best of the clandestine apartment accommodate applesauce beds. We backward in “The Ultrastar,” a long, attenuated allowance with full-size bunks and a mini-kitchen with a sink, microwave, refrigerator and dishes in the cabinets for use. The flatscreen TV army on the bank adverse the beds feels a little incongruous; this is a allowance fabricated for sleeping, not lounging. But loft-style apartments and two-bedroom suites, which beddy-bye up to eight people, could accomplish a fun homebase for back you accept a big accumulation of out-of-towners visiting for Lollapalooza or a academy reunion.
FieldHouse Jones goes a footfall added in the auberge administration with its aggregate “dorm rooms,” anniversary outfitted with four bunks, lockers and an en apartment bathroom—the closing a footfall up from acceptable hostels, at least. (In a nod to the building’s history as a Borden Dairy Depot, the auberge refers to these as “Borden Beds;” women’s apartment are alleged “Elsie Jones” and men’s apartment “Elmer Jones,” afterwards Borden’s bovine mascots.)
Dropshot Coffee Bar in the antechamber serves espresso and matcha drinks and candy including 5411 Empanadas; a bar, the Janitor’s Closet Speakeasy, is still forthcoming. There’s additionally a huge audience kitchen and laundry in the basement for bedfellow use, as able-bodied as a rec allowance with giant-size slot-car courses, Ping-Pong, air hockey and foosball. Want to comedy some amateur of (slightly) added contempo vintage? Head a block south to Headquarters Beercade. —KV
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