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On May 29, 1998, the Blackstone Hotel was designated as a Chicago Landmark.
The Chicago designation date is wrong. The City of Chicago lists the Blackstone Hotel’s landmark designation date as April 29, 1998, not May 29, 1998.
Full reasoning
The City of Chicago’s official landmarks database is the authoritative source for Chicago Landmark designation dates. Its entry for the Blackstone Hotel gives the designation date as April 29, 1998. That directly contradicts the article’s statement that the designation happened on May 29, 1998.
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- Chicago Landmarks - Landmark Details: Blackstone Hotel
Blackstone Hotel ... Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: April 29, 1998
The hotel closed in 2000, after Occupational Safety and Health Administration building inspectors found safety problems during a 1999 inspection.
This sentence misstates both the timing and the agency involved. Contemporaneous reporting says the Blackstone was shuttered in 1999 after city inspectors found serious safety/code problems, not in 2000 after an OSHA building inspection.
Full reasoning
Two credible sources contradict this sentence.
- A contemporaneous Los Angeles Times item summarizing Chicago Tribune reporting says the Blackstone Hotel “has been shuttered after city inspectors said” the building had serious safety problems. That contradicts the article’s attribution to Occupational Safety and Health Administration building inspectors.
- A 2008 Chicago Magazine history of the hotel says Sage bought the Blackstone “closed since 1999” and further states that the city had cited the property for building-code violations, with city inspectors continuing to charge violations even after it was voluntarily closed in 1999.
So the page appears to have confused later OSHA workplace-safety issues with the separate city inspection/code-enforcement problems that led to the hotel’s closure. The closure was already in 1999, and the cited inspectors were city inspectors, not OSHA “building inspectors.”
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- Traveler's Notes . . . - Los Angeles Times
Chicago's landmark Blackstone Hotel has been shuttered after city inspectors said that the 89-year-old structure has serious safety problems, the Chicago Tribune newspaper reported.
- Rooms With Memories - Chicago Magazine
Sage bought the Blackstone, closed since 1999, in 2005 ... Even after the hotel was voluntarily closed in 1999, city inspectors went on to charge the building with 103 code violations.
- The Blackstone is back - ABC7 Chicago
The hotel closed in 1999 and has sat vacant since. ... The Blackstone, after several years of hard times, closed in 1999.