The location is great for visiting Millenial Park and the Magnificent Mile. The view is beautiful day and night. The apartment was very clean.
Check-in was rough. Here's what happened: The host sent us check-in instructions, which came as an image linked in a message. But right before checking in, he messaged again to say that the lockbox wasn't working and that we should ignore the linked instructions and instead go straight to the front desk. Okay, no problem. So we went to the front desk at the address in the Airbnb listing...but the front desk had no idea what we were talking about. We called the host, and he said he was sending us a message with linked instructions. They were the same instructions as before, telling us to go to the lockbox at a nearby 7-11. So we went to the lockbox, but it didn't work. We called again, and the host told us actually we needed to go to the front desk of a totally different address around the block. He told us to say we were "visiting our friend Jacob" who had left a key at the desk for us. And we were not supposed to mention Airbnb. Sus. So, we went to that address, got the key, and got into the room without issue.
It was clear that the hosts were not allowed to rent their apartment on Airbnb and were trying to avoid detection with a decoy address. But it ended up being stressful and confusing. And we did not like being forced to lie! If we had a do-over, we'd just get a hotel. Maybe the fake one we tried to check in to--it seemed nice.