Sisson Hotel

The Sisson Hotel was a Chicago, Illinois hotel located in the Hyde Park neighborhood on the property that once housed the Hyde Park House, a hotel built by Hyde Park founder Paul Cornell in the 1850s. The property has been renamed twice since its 1918 construction and currently bears the name Hampton House. In 1923, proprietor Harry W. Sisson was linked to the Ku Klux Klan by the American Unity League, which resulted in a boycott by Catholics and Jews. The reaction was a movement to urge Klansmen to stay at the hotel. In the 1980s Chicago's first African-American mayor, Harold Washington, made his residence in the building.