Best Business Hotels in North Side
Sixteen North Side hotels carry the business-hotel amenities that actually matter for a work trip: a business center, meeting-capable space, and reliable Wi-Fi bundled with a room built for a multi-night stay rather than a weekend. Hyatt Regency Deerfield anchors the top tier with event space and a bistro built for closing meetings over food rather than driving out. Comfort Inn & Suites Mundelein-Vernon Hills and Baymont By Wyndham Schaumburg Chicago Northwest cover the mid-range, both close enough to O'Hare for a same-week flight home. What unites this list is proximity to the office parks that give North Side its character in the first place, rather than any single downtown business district.
Business · North Side in numbers
4.4Guest scoreBusinessResidence Inn by Marriott Chicago Deerfield
4.4Guest scoreBusinessLincolnshire Marriott Resort
4.4Guest scoreBusinessBaymont By Wyndham Schaumburg Chicago Northwest
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Hampton Inn & Suites Chicago-North Shore/Skokie
4.3Guest scoreBusinessCourtyard by Marriott Chicago Highland Park/Northbrook
4.2Guest scoreBusinessHoliday Inn Express & Suites Chicago - Prospect Heights, an IHG Hotel
4.2Guest scoreBusinessHoliday Inn Express & Suites Chicago-Deerfield/Lincolnshire by IHG
4.2Guest scoreBusinessComfort Inn & Suites Mundelein-Vernon Hills
4.2Guest scoreBusinessLa Quinta Inn & Suites by Wyndham Bannockburn-Deerfield
4.1Guest scoreBusinessChicago Marriott Suites Deerfield
4.1Guest scoreBusinessHyatt Regency Deerfield
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Courtyard by Marriott Chicago Deerfield
3.7Guest scoreBusinessBaymont by Wyndham Glenview
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Holiday Inn & Suites Chicago North Shore (Skokie) by IHG
3.6Guest scoreBusinessSuburban Studios Arlington Heights - Elk Grove
Office Parks, Not a Downtown Core
Hyatt Regency Deerfield rates 8.2 and centers its business appeal on an exercise room, event space and a casual American bistro, seven minutes' walk from Lake Cook Rd & Wilmot Rd. The event space specifically sets it apart from most of this list, useful for a company running an actual meeting or small conference rather than just housing traveling staff. Nineteen taxi-minutes from O'Hare and a one-hour-fifty-minute public transit option give both driving and non-driving travelers a workable route in, though the driving option is clearly faster here for anyone on a tight meeting schedule.
An all-suite property backing an 8.2 rating, Chicago Marriott Suites Deerfield pairs a cocktail bar, dining and a gym, giving a business traveler a separate living space to spread out work materials rather than working from a bed. Eight taxi-minutes from Par-King Skill Golf and two on foot from Parkway Grill round out a stay built as much for entertaining a client over dinner as for solo work. The two-hour-seven-minute public transit time to O'Hare is long enough that a taxi or rideshare is the realistic option for anyone flying.
At a 7.2 rating, Suburban Studios Arlington Heights - Elk Grove offers a lower-cost business option with an exercise room, full-service laundry and a business center built for a longer assignment rather than a two-night trip. Three taxi-minutes from Busse Woods gives a break from the office-park scenery during a longer stay, and fourteen taxi-minutes to O'Hare keeps travel days short. The kitchen in every room matters here specifically: business travelers on a multi-week assignment can cook rather than expensing every meal, which adds up fast on a corporate card over several weeks.
Baymont By Wyndham Schaumburg Chicago Northwest closes this list at an 8.8 rating, pairing a business center with a pool, hot tub, gym and airport shuttle, seventeen taxi-minutes from O'Hare. The airport shuttle specifically suits a business traveler without a rental car, a detail most other properties on this list lack. Ten taxi-minutes from Arlington Park rounds out a stay built for someone splitting a trip between meetings in Schaumburg's office corridor and an evening away from the desk once the workday finally ends, with the pool and hot tub offering a wind-down that most business hotels on this list skip entirely.
Business travel defines North Side more than any other single traveler type, and it shows in the corridor's hotel mix: extended-stay suites, meeting rooms, and business centers outnumber pools and spas at most properties here. Deerfield carries the highest concentration of business-focused stays, likely reflecting its office parks and Hyatt Regency's conference facilities, while Schaumburg and Arlington Heights serve a different kind of business traveler working the O'Hare-adjacent corridor rather than Deerfield's cluster specifically. A traveler choosing on business amenities alone should still weigh the airport-versus-office-park trade-off, since the two priorities pull toward different towns.