Extremely small bathroom, lack of cleanliness
We stayed two nights in a lakeview room. First, the positives - yes, the hotel does have a quirky look, especially in the lobby area which is refreshing from all the cookie cutter hotels. Our room did have a great view of Lake Michigan and the hotel is situated right across Lincoln Park and close to the Lincoln Zoo. The hotel also has a decent restaurant within it - The Perennial Virant. Also, wifi (albeit slightly slow) was included. Service was decent - no complaints but nothing out of the ordinary or special either.
Unfortunately, the hotel did miss on a few basic things. First, the bathrooms are extremely, extremely small. Most notably, there's little if any bathroom counter space for me to put my stuff (e.g. razor, toothbrush, etc.) It was really inconvenient and I always concerned any of the items I put on the shelving would fall into the toilet. Second, three of my pillows had dirty pillowcases that were not obvious to the naked eye - but definitely obvious to my UV blacklight. I believe one pillowcase had the markings of blood on it when examined under my UV blacklight. This tells me either the pillowcases don't get changed as often as they should or the linens don't get clean well enough (most likely the latter since it was difficult, if not impossible to see without the UV blacklight). The bathroom was also not as clean as it could be when examined under my UV blacklight (and compared to other hotels we stayed at during our two week vacation, this was the worse) - housekeeping could do a slightly better job. I didn't see stains everywhere, but this hotel was just a bit less clean than others I stayed out.
Also, the air conditioners are a bit loud. Finally, the decor of the room seemed a bit dated.