The Sisson Hotel was a Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

, Illinois

Illinois

Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

 hotel

Hotel

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 located in the Hyde Park neighborhood on the property that once housed the Hyde Park House

Hyde Park House

The Hyde Park House was a four-story wood frame upscale hotel built and run by Paul Cornell, that served as the centerpiece for Hyde Park social life from 1857 until 1879. It was located on 53rd Street adjacent to Lake Michigan on land currently occupied by the Hampton House.Cornell successfully...

, a hotel built by Hyde Park founder Paul Cornell in the 1850s. The property has been renamed twice since its 1918 construction and currently bears the name Hampton House.

In 1923, proprietor Harry W. Sisson was linked to the Ku Klux Klan

Ku Klux Klan

Ku Klux Klan, often abbreviated KKK and informally known as the Klan, is the name of three distinct past and present far-right organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically...

 by the American Unity League, which resulted in a boycott by Catholic

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s and Jews. The reaction was a movement to urge Klansmen to stay at the hotel. In the 1980s Chicago's first African-American mayor, Harold Washington

Harold Washington

Harold Lee Washington was an American lawyer and politician who became the first African-American Mayor of Chicago, serving from 1983 until his death in 1987.- Early years and military service :...

, made his residence in the building.