Beatrice's place is a lovely, big, super clean and welcoming home away from home. I felt very comfortable there. I enjoyed wandering around the leafy neighborhood and getting to know the Lincoln Square neighborhood...which is filled with good restaurants, a great bookstore and lots of very friendly people. It was a little farther from the center of the city than I would have liked, but otherwise an easy commute by the brownline. As a woman traveling alone there I felt perfectly safe. Communications were good and questions quickly answered. I would definitly return and would recommend to friends visiting Chicago.