A new Kimpton Palomar Hotel is getting ready to open in the River North neighborhood of downtown Chicago. Construction of the 36-story building, which began in early 2008, will be finished in the last quarter of 2009. The hotel will formally open to the public in January 2010.  A lot is packed onto the small site. Lively hotel and residential lobbies occupy the street level, along with a premier restaurant along Illinois Street...more.