A Tribute to Hugh Hefner's Chicago

Celebrate Hugh Hefner's 90th birthday with this week's best bit of nostalgic coverage.

If you’re looking for some potent Playboy nostalgia on this, Hugh Hefner’s 90th birthday, we recommend “A Playboy’s Guide to Hugh Hefner’s Chicago.” Compiled by Chicago Tribune graphics reporter Kori Rumore, the April 4 spread is filled with vintage photos, locator maps and rich anecdotes.

One of the highlighted landmarks is, of course, the original Playboy Mansion at 1340 North State Parkway. There’s a fun picture of Hef crouched next to the basement pool, and by coincidence, cross-town that same April 4 in Chicago’s other paper the Sun-Times, actress Melissa McCarthy was also waxing

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