Meh... it's alright...
This was probably our fifth or sixth time in this particular Embassy Suites. 
We keep coming back because of its location-- Just a few blocks of the tollway. Two more blocks to Michigan Ave. CTA Red Line station just a block away, so we could hop on and be delivered right to Wrigley Field. And my FAVORITE restaurants all within a minute's walk (Portillo's, Rain Forrest, and THE original Pizzeria Uno!)
But every time we're at this hotel, I tell my wife that if it weren't for her corporation's discount there's NO WAY we'd pay that kind of money to stay here. The breakfast lines were *unnecessarily* long... I don't see any good reason to force the made-to-order omelette line in to the same line as the buffet items (none of the other Embassy's we've stayed in does this).
Happily, we had the Hilton Rewards so that our Internet was free-- four people each with a laptop and a smart phone would have been a few more hundred dollars.
Our room was 7th floor overlooking State Street... and I did not remember staying awake all night from emergency vehicle sirens. But I think in the past we've always had rooms on the back side or off Ohio.
Elevators were a huge delay all weekend. Besides the smart children pushing every floor button, it sure seemed as though 4 elevators was NOT adequate for the volume of people in this facility.
And I was surprised by the volume of people just outside the front doors dragging on their cigarettes. There's not a lot of room when you enter this hotel. Their revolving door clutch is set very low, so the door mechanically slows down anyone who wants to escape the cigarette smoke. There is a serious gauntlet of hacking, shaking smokers who obviously aren't polite enough to keep their second hand habit to themselves. Yuck.
But,like I said, we'll probably be back just because it's so convenient AND my wife travels for her employment enough that we get discounts and perks. But maybe I'll check the rates and facilities for the Howard Johnson's up the street next time.