Half Day Tours
Here are some of the tours we provide for our clients. Any of the tours may be customized to include what you want!
Chicago will come alive with a narrated tour presenting highlights and history of its people and culture. See the city from the lake, from the top of its tallest building and at close range with a ride through the bustle of the financial district, historic architecture, Millennium Park, monumental outdoor art, ethnic areas and the Magnificent Mile.
Cloud Gate at Millenium Park
See 53 architectural sites on this 90-minute cruise of the Chicago River, led by an entertaining architectural historian. Then your deluxe land cruiser (bus) and guide will show you other sights of the city.
A guided tour through Chicago's celebrated Art Institute includes visits to the French Impressionists and Great Masters. This is followed by a bus tour of the great outdoor art, including works by Calder, Picasso, Miro, and Chagall.
Lion Statue in front of the Art Institute
Picture by Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau
Visit the home and studio of a renowned Chicago artist. Meet the artist as you learn about his or her work and lifestyle. Tour an art gallery or Chicago's monumental outdoor art or visit the Art Institute of Chicago.
Experience Chicago's historical gangster past. See the sites left by gangland riots, underhanded politicians and hidden speakeasies that tell Chicago's flapper and Tommy- gun tales.
Visit two of Chicago's top museums. Explore the wonders of the earth and ancient secrets and treasures of mankind at the Field Museum of Natural History. See "Sue" and other dinosaurs, mummies, a Pawnee Earth Lodge, and more. Next, plunge into the wonders of the Shedd Aquarium & Oceanarium, and see the dolphin demonstration.
Experience how wealthy and middle class Chicagoans lived in the Nineteenth Century. Tour the restored Glessner House and the Clarke Home. See other Prairie Avenue homes on this cobblestone street.
Visit the world's largest wholesale buying center on a narrated tour to show rooms not open to the public. Observe the newest fashions in their furniture displays. Tour the Mercantile Exchange where a guide will point out the frantic action of the "pit".
Welcome to the ever-changing adventure at the Museum of Science & Industry. You won’t believe the fun you’ll have and the science you’ll learn at this world-famous original hands-on museum. From the Omnimax film to exploring a coal mine, they’ve got fun down to a science.
Follow Chicago's cash flow. Investigate the trades, commodities and banking of our powerful monetary structure when you visit the trading floors of the Chicago Board of Trade, the Mercantile Exchange, and see one million dollars at the Federal Reserve Bank.
Much of Chicago is a vast museum of architecture. The shape of both the skyline and the streetscape contain buildings, old and new, that have a history and beauty all their own. Look at what has happened and is happening to Chicago's architecture, its role in the city's history, and the famous people and events connected to these landmarks.
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View of buildings on Lakeshore from Grant Park
Tour the home and studio of the genius who revolutionized domestic architecture, the designer of the "Prairie Style". Pass the homes he built, and shop in the Ginkgo Tree Book shop.
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