SOPHY Hyde Park

SOPHY Hyde Park is a boutique hotel on 53rd Street designed around the neighborhood’s art, science, literature and music, and a short walk from the University of Chicago. Rooms have hardwood floors, floor-to-ceiling windows and marble bathrooms with walk-in showers, and each comes with a record player and a few albums, with more to borrow from a front desk library. Deluxe Double Queen rooms and Novel Suites sleep up to four. More than 600 original works by local artists and students hang throughout the building, and Mesler is the on-site restaurant.

What to know

• Deluxe Double Queen rooms and Novel Suites sleep up to four.
• The hotel has an Illinois resident rate and suite packages that include parking.
• The Metra Electric 53rd Street station is a few blocks east.
• Rooms fill early for University of Chicago graduation weekends.