That includes the Four Seasons Hotel and the Ritz Carlton, both in Chicago, a half-interest in a Westin Hotel in Boston's Copley Place and the Four Seasons Olympic in Seattle.

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Among the most popular sports choices: Boston's Ritz Carlton, Chicago's Peninsula Hotel and New York's Westin in Times Square.

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Ritz-Carlton's use of cobalt-blue glasses in its hotel dining rooms can be traced back to Boston in the 1920s, for example, where window glass that had been imported from Europe and turned blue in the New England air was a symbol of wealth.

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