Short-term Corporate Housing in Chicago: What to Expect

If you're coming to Chicago for a month or more, a furnished apartment will treat you better than a hotel. More room, a real kitchen, and a monthly rate you can plan around. That's the short version. Here's what a short-term corporate housing stay with us looks like, and how it stacks up against the alternatives.

We're Pinnacle Furnished Suites (PFS), and short-term furnished housing in Chicago is all we do.

What is corporate housing?

Corporate housing is a fully furnished apartment you rent for a set stretch of time, usually 30 days or more, ready to live in the day you arrive, with furniture, housewares, and utilities already handled. The Corporate Housing Providers Association treats this kind of professionally managed furnished housing as the standard alternative to long hotel stays for relocations, extended trips, and temporary assignments. With us, that means a real apartment in one of Chicago's better buildings instead of a room with a number on the door.

Why not just book a hotel?

For a month or longer, a furnished apartment beats a hotel because you get a full home, a kitchen, and a flat monthly rate instead of one room at a nightly rate. A few specifics:

• Coming back to a full apartment after a day of meetings beats coming back to one room. You'll sleep better and show up sharper.
• On repeat trips you've got a second home in the city instead of a hotel you're living out of, kitchen and bathroom fully stocked.
• Need to sit down with someone? Use the apartment, or grab a meeting room in the building.
• Cook when you feel like it instead of eating alone in a restaurant every night.

We laid out the full case, nine reasons deep, in our furnished-apartment-versus-hotel breakdown.

How's this different from Airbnb?

The core difference: we're a professionally managed housing provider, not a solo host, so you get consistent, standardized quality, one lease with one company behind it, and an actual person to call. Airbnb is fine for a weekend; a month is another matter. Airbnb quality swings wildly from listing to listing, and Chicago licenses and restricts short-term rentals, with plenty of buildings not permitting them at all. We give you standardized, hotel-grade furnishings, WiFi that works, in-unit laundry, and building amenities, all on one lease with one company standing behind it.

Where you'll be staying

Our Chicago furnished apartments sit in the West Loop, River North, Streeterville, and the Loop, each a short walk from an L stop:

• Streeterville, Red Line at Grand or Chicago
• West Loop, Green and Pink Lines at Clinton or Morgan
• The Loop, at Washington/Wells (Brown, Orange, Pink, Purple)
• River North, Red Line at Grand or Merchandise Mart on the Brown and Purple

Layouts run from studios to two-bedrooms. Find what's open on our Chicago rentals page.

How pricing works

Short-term corporate housing with us is billed as one flat monthly rate set before you arrive, with utilities, WiFi, and parking access where the building offers it included, and no nightly tax or resort fee on top. Downtown hotels do the opposite: the rate is high and it moves with the calendar. Head out toward O'Hare and the nightly number drops, but now traffic turns your daily trip downtown into a slog. We keep you downtown on that one monthly number. The full breakdown is here.

Getting around without a car

A lot of Chicagoans don't own a car. They ride the L, take buses, and grab ride-shares. Tell us how you plan to get around and we'll steer you toward the right building and the closest stop.

Eating and going out

The food here is worth planning around. Every price point, every craving. White-tablecloth steakhouses, the Billy Goat Tavern, Thai, Chinese, Afghan, French, Mediterranean, and killer pub food in every neighborhood. Plan on eating well.

There's culture nonstop too. A few places we'd point you to:

• The Adler Planetarium
• The Field Museum
• The Art Institute
• Lincoln Park Zoo
• The Green Mill for late-night jazz, worth the trip north
• The Museum of Contemporary Art
• Taste of Chicago and the Air and Water Show each summer

Ready when you are

Send us your dates and we'll tell you what's open. Reach out through our contact page and we'll start planning the stay.