Tours

Chicago Trolley and Double-Decker busses are a great way to see beautiful Chicago and learn about its architecture and unique past. The guides are knowledgeable and entertaining. Hop-On, Hop-Off Touring makes it possible for you to explore any stop and get back on when the next bus or trolley arrives at the designated stop each hour. You are able to get off and then on again continuing your trip at your leisure.

Cheesecake, is not a bad way to bond. And like friends who sit down with a couple of slices, this is the place where you'll get to know each other better. They've got answers to questions, a little bit about the quality they put into each cheesecake, the history of the restaurant, and the story of how all this cheesecake-mania got started.

Bernard Turner’s career has been in teaching and educational publishing. He is a docent at the Chicago History Museum where he gives walking tours of Old Town and Lincoln Park. He also provides Green Line and Brown Line ‘L’ tours and guided tours of Bronzeville. In 2002, Mr. Turner founded Highlights of Chicago Press with the publication of A View of Bronzeville, a neighborhood tour guide that focuses on the important institutions and people that made Bronzeville a great neighborhood. Other publications by Highlights of Chicago Press include: TJ and The Mysterious Stranger, a children’s story; Our Chicago—People and Places; The Windies’ City—Chicago’s Historical Hidden Treasures; Chicago Neighborhoods with Flavor—Getting Out of the Loop. The most recent Highlights of Chicago Press publication is My Spanish Coloring Book.

You haven’t really seen Chicago if you haven’t ventured into one of our amazing neighborhoods. Each neighborhood has a distinct history and offers visitors a unique look at the city’s diversity. When you visit Chicago’s neighborhoods, you will see and learn about the heart and soul of the city. You will experience Chicago like a Chicagoan!

 Have you ever wanted to see the beautiful city of Chicago from above! You can join us for an amazing helicopter skyline tour where you will see the city from a birds eye view. This is one of the most incredible adventures you can ever imagine.

The model industrial town of Pullman, Illinois had its beginning on May 26, 1880, in the open prairie. This town was the physical expression of an idea born and nurtured in the mind of George M. Pullman, President of Pullman's Palace Car Company.
He decided to develop a model community, a total environment, superior to that available to the working class elsewhere. By so doing, he hoped to avoid strikes, attract the most skilled workers and attain greater productivity as a result of the better health, environment and spirit of his employees.

The WINDY’s have been a dream of Capt. Bob Marthai for many years. He had hoped to sail out of historic Charleston S. C. where he had operated his three masted schooner PRIDE for several years, but had  been unable to find local dock-age for a ship of the size of WINDY. At a meeting of the American Sail Training Association, he was invited  to consider Chicago as an alternative location. After a year of negotiations with the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, he  began tours on the Windy for Chicago in 2001.