Image circa 1980: Dan Doanhue
 
 
Howard Johnson's Landmark
October 1963 page 3
O'Hare
 --8201 Higgins Rd
 

This Motor Lodge & Restaurant opened in 1960. The site also boasted a Red Coach Grill. After its HoJo's days the Motor Lodge was branded as a Holiday and then as a Wyndham. By the latter 2000s it was unbranded and called The Chicago O'Hare Garden Hotel.


Left: Our newest Red Coach Grill recently held a luncheon and reception fo a group of tv, radio and newspaper guests. Our president, Howard B Johnson, played host as the group inspected the luxury restaurant located in our motor lodge on Kennedy Expwy in Chicago. This unit is managed by Jerry Hickey with chef Heckles Miller in the kitchen.
 
 
Photographs January 2007: Joe Fay
 
 
 
 
 
The original Nims Restaurant was destroyed by fire at the end of 1970. The Hooters came to operate in the rebuilt Howard Johnson's.
 
Photographs May 2005: Phil Edwards
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Postcard circa 1960s: Kummerlowe Archive
 

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