Playboy's offices were completed in , taking up , square feet on floors 4 through In an effort to save money, its operations would move to Lake Shore Place, N.
Lake Shore Drive, in Built in and originally called the Knickerbocker Hotel, it became Playboy Towers in the early s. Hugh Hefner and the American Dream" by Steven Watts, the Playboy name was removed from the hotel in when the company experienced money troubles.
Operating from to , this theater had an ever-changing name. Starting in it was known as the Playboy Theater and ran a mix of offbeat movies. After the theater was sold in and renamed Chelex Theater, Tribune movie critic Gene Siskel noted , "Management of the Playboy was a hapahazard affair over the years, even though Playboy chief Hugh Hefner is an avid film freak.
The Chicago Playboy club moved over the years, ending up on the second floor of this high-rise apartment building. The last incarnation of the club included "Rabbits," male versions of the Bunnies hired in an effort to attract women and couples. The club closed for good in In , under the guidance of Hefner's daughter, company president and chief operating officer Christie Hefner, Playboy moved its offices to Lake Shore Drive.
It occupied , square feet of top two floors of Lake Shore Place. Playboy consolidated its offices and moved operations to Los Angeles in In , plans were in the works to build a modern take on the classic s nightclub under the Playboy name. One of the sites considered was this mansion, which then housed Il Mulino restaurant.
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The project never came to fruition. Tribune archives , Playboy Enterprises. Chicago Tribune historical photo All it took was the purchase of a Marilyn Monroe photo from a suburban calendar company. Hefner died on Wednesday. Hefner's childhood home N. New England As a boy, Hefner published a typewritten newspaper and sold copies for a penny each in his childhood neighborhood. The closest busy street to us was Grand Avenue, which led straight into the heart of the city.
Steinmetz College Prep N. Marici during a visit to the school Sept. Chicago Tribune historical photo While a student at the school known as Steinmetz High School when he graduated in , Hefner founded a school paper, wrote and drew cartoons. I went back to Steinmetz High School, I noted that they still had on the wall the honor roll of the boys who'd served in World War II, with my name and those of my classmates on it. I really felt I could walk right back into my childhood.
The apartment where Hefner produced the first copy of Playboy S. Hefner works on the first issue of Playboy magazine in his Chicago apartment. I like to think the magazine's presence provided the city with an edge, a reminder to the rest of America that the first steps of the sexual revolution took place at a card table at S. The original Playboy mansion N. In March Daren Metropoulos, the owner of the Playboy Mansion, entered into an agreement with the City of Los Angeles which permanently protects the mansion from demolition. The agreement between Metropoulos and the City of Los Angeles, referred to between the parties as a permanent protection covenant, is binding on all future owners.
The agreement protects the estate from demolition, but still allows Metropoulos to make modernizations and substantial renovations and repairs for the mansion "following a long period of deferred maintenance. The permanent protection covenant avoided a potentially drawn out and contentious legal action between the City of Los Angeles and Metropoulos for the City of Los Angeles seeking the formal designation of the mansion as a historic landmark. George Swift Isham, a prominent surgeon whose social circle included Theodore Roosevelt and Robert Peary ; it was acquired by Hefner in In addition to a game room and bowling alley, the residence contained a two-floor dormitory for Bunnies employed at the Chicago Playboy Club and discrete apartments that were occupied by several employees, including longtime Hefner aide Bobbie Arnstein.
For a period in the s, Hefner divided his time between Chicago and the Mansion West.
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Although Playboy Enterprises would remain headquartered in Chicago until , Hefner left the city permanently for Los Angeles in following the conviction and ensuing suicide of Bobbie Arnstein, the culmination of "a federal Eventually, the property was turned into a dormitory for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago , with Hefner formally deeding the building to the Art Institute in In , the mansion was sold to developer Bruce Abrams and converted into four high-price luxury condos.
According to Playboy Enterprises' SEC filings , Hefner paid Playboy rent for "that portion of the Playboy Mansion used exclusively for him and his personal guests' residence as well as the per-unit value of non-business meals, beverages and other benefits received by him and his personal guests". The Playboy Mansion has hosted charity events, including Karma Foundation, the Celebrity Poker Tournament, [30] a fundraising party for the Marijuana Policy Project , [31] and an event to benefit research into autism.
In February , people complained of fever and respiratory illness after attending a DomainFest Global conference event held at the Playboy Mansion. Epidemiologists from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported their findings at a Centers for Disease Control conference that the disease outbreak was traced to a whirlpool hot tub in the mansion's famed grotto, where they found Legionella pneumophila , which causes Legionnaires' disease. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Hugh Hefner, Founder of Playboy Magazine, Dead at 91
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