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Congress Plaza Hotel
An 1893 hotel on Michigan Avenue, built for the World's Fair, whose ghost stories grew from two real deaths. Guests report most from Room 441; the "sealed room" and the Stephen King link don't hold up.
The ghost story: The hotel's saddest story is true, though usually told with the wrong date. On August 3, 1939, Adele Langer, a Czech Jewish refugee whose six-month visa was running out, fell to her death from a 13th-floor window with her sons Karel, 6, and Jan, 4.