Comments on: The Myth of the Frierdiker Rebbe and Chicago’s Drake Hotel https://anash.org/the-myth-of-the-frierdiker-rebbe-and-chicagos-drake-hotel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-myth-of-the-frierdiker-rebbe-and-chicagos-drake-hotel News, Views, Inspiration Fri, 27 Mar 2026 04:00:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mendel Chaimson https://anash.org/the-myth-of-the-frierdiker-rebbe-and-chicagos-drake-hotel/#comment-68468 Fri, 27 Mar 2026 04:00:36 +0000 https://anash.org/?p=945764#comment-68468 It was at the Graemere. The Stevens hotel is where the luncheon was held on Sunday 14 Shevat which the Frierdiker Rebbe did not attend due to his mothers passing.

]]> By: Thomas Hilton https://anash.org/the-myth-of-the-frierdiker-rebbe-and-chicagos-drake-hotel/#comment-67528 Wed, 31 Dec 2025 08:19:16 +0000 https://anash.org/?p=945764#comment-67528 Was the maamarim that the Rebbe Rayatz gave on 7 Shevat, the day of his arrival to Chicago in 1942 presented at the Graemare Hotel or at the Stevens Hotel which is now the Conrad Hilton Hotel.

]]> By: Rabbi Chaim Dalfin https://anash.org/the-myth-of-the-frierdiker-rebbe-and-chicagos-drake-hotel/#comment-65644 Wed, 06 Aug 2025 02:55:30 +0000 https://anash.org/?p=945764#comment-65644 Those interested would benefit from reading my book Chabad and Orthodoxy: 1900-50, the section on Chicago. Also, I took lots of clips of the various closed shuls in Chicago’s West Side, plus the house the FR stayed in in 1930..
Go to my YouTube channel: Rabbi Dalfin

Chicago was a עיר ואם בישראל…

]]> By: Sholom DovBer Avtzon https://anash.org/the-myth-of-the-frierdiker-rebbe-and-chicagos-drake-hotel/#comment-65639 Tue, 05 Aug 2025 23:29:51 +0000 https://anash.org/?p=945764#comment-65639 The question is why no one mentions that Reb Moshe Leib Rodstein is the one who transcribed the sichos that the Frierdiker Rebbe said in Chicago and gave it to him as a present in 5705 [I personally think it was around yud beis Tammuz. ]

]]> By: Mottel Rivkin https://anash.org/the-myth-of-the-frierdiker-rebbe-and-chicagos-drake-hotel/#comment-65638 Tue, 05 Aug 2025 22:10:50 +0000 https://anash.org/?p=945764#comment-65638 In reply to Chicago native.

Yes.
Unfortunately the Graemere Hotel was destroyed in 1977.
for more history about it:
https://chicagohistorytoday.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/graemere-hotel-chicago-east-garfield-park/

]]> By: Printed information https://anash.org/the-myth-of-the-frierdiker-rebbe-and-chicagos-drake-hotel/#comment-65636 Tue, 05 Aug 2025 21:56:06 +0000 https://anash.org/?p=945764#comment-65636 You can read about the first visit in this fascinating book: https://www.amazon.com/Chicagos-Glimpse-Royalty-Historic-Visitor/dp/B0DSGDWNYF

And the second visit:
https://store.kehotonline.com/mobile/prodinfo.asp?number=EFR-TOUC

]]> By: Chicago native https://anash.org/the-myth-of-the-frierdiker-rebbe-and-chicagos-drake-hotel/#comment-65635 Tue, 05 Aug 2025 21:02:36 +0000 https://anash.org/?p=945764#comment-65635 That was my childhood! Passing by the Drake Hotel saying the Frierdiker Rebbe stayed there. Does the Graemere Hotel still exist?

]]> By: Fascinating https://anash.org/the-myth-of-the-frierdiker-rebbe-and-chicagos-drake-hotel/#comment-65634 Tue, 05 Aug 2025 20:53:54 +0000 https://anash.org/?p=945764#comment-65634 Thank you for sharing! Not much is known about this visit it would be great if someone would research it well.

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