Ski Season: New Name, Old Look // Hot Dog Relishes Change

The Ski Chicagoland Association still includes all five downhillfacilities in the metropolitan area, but one has a new name - andlook - this season.

Americana, which had been for sale for five years, recently wassold to Marcus Hotel Corp. of Milwaukee.

The Lake Geneva facility has been renamed Hot Dog Mountain,and will be part of what is now the Grand Geneva Resort & Spa.

The new owners plan a major renovation of the resort, which wasa hot spot of the 1970s as an offshoot of Chicago's Playboy magazineempire. Playboy, which built the resort on what was then the IndianTrails ski area in 1968, sold it to Americana in 1980.

Among the first …