After nearly two years of construction and a significant procurement effort by The Parker Company, Marquis embraces, perhaps even flaunts, its scope: Spaces are broad, the lobby ceiling reaches 30 feet, the restaurant serving three meals a day seats 400, and natural light floods in through floor-to-ceiling windows.

McCormick Place, the largest convention center in North America connects Marriott Marquis to all 2.6 million square feet of exhibition space inside McCormick Place, which makes the new hotel a natural destination for convention goers.

Marquis boasts 90,000 square feet of meeting space unto itself — including 29 smaller meeting spaces in the old American Book Co. building, a former textbook factory next to the new construction — and 50,000 square feet of ballrooms.