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Site of the Sauganash Hotel/Wigwam

Chicago, United States of America

Site of the Sauganash Hotel/Wigwam

The Wigwam was a convention center and meeting hall built to hold the 1860 Republican National Convention. It was located in Chicago, Illinois, at Lake Street and Market (later Wacker Drive) near where the Chicago River divides into its north and south branches, on property owned by Garrett Theologi

cal Seminary. This site had previously been the site of the Sauganash Hotel, Chicago's first hotel. This is where Abraham Lincoln won the party's nomination, which led to the U.S. Presidency. The name "Wigwam" was later associated with host locations for both the 1864 Democratic National Convention and the 1892 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The location at Lake and Wacker was designated a Chicago Landmark on November 6, 2002.

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