Article: Hostel plan welcome

Come our millennium summer, Chicago will be extending a grand new downtown welcome for young people coming from all across the country and the world: A bed for the night for $22 at the fourth-largest youth hostel in the world.

The Hostelling International-Chicago organization is already at work transforming a vacant building at the corner of Wabash and Congress into a 500-bed hostel projected to draw 73,000 overnight stays a year. Of those, 55,000 are projected to be international travelers.

The location could not be finer for impressing newcomer travelers - smack dab amid some of the city's grandest showcase attractions, such as the Art Institute, lakefront museums, Symphony Center, the ...

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