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Uncensored Chicago Architecture & History Walking Tour

By Chicago Riverwalk Walking Tour
Free cancellation available
Price is €4 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 1h 30m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation

Overview

Meet your Tour Guide SuperDan on the Chicago Riverwalk at The Northman Beer & Cider Garden, and SuperDan will lead you West all the way to Wolf Point — the western end of the Riverwalk. Along the way, you'll take in the architecture and history the Riverwalk has to offer, plus stories typically left out of large tour operators' scripts, including:

  • The Battle of Fort Dearborn (the American soldiers and settlers lost)
  • The S.S. Eastland Disaster (more passengers perished than on the Titanic)
  • The Levee District (the largest red-light district in human history)
  • The Haymarket Riot (the first use of dynamite in a domestic terrorist incident)
  • Chicago's First Murder (Perpetrator: John Kinzie, the Owner of Chicago, for whom Kinzie Street is named)

Your guide SuperDan holds a Master's degree in real estate from DePaul University's business school and has spent 3 years as an architecture and history guide on the Chicago River tourist boats.

Activity location

  • John Hancock Center
    • 875 N Michigan Ave
    • 60611-1803, Chicago, Illinois, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • The Northman Beer & Cider Garden on the Riverwalk
    • 233 East Riverwalk
    • 60601, Chicago, Illinois, United States

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Chicago Walking Tour Chicago Riverwalk Architecture and History

  • Activity duration is 1 hour and 30 minutes1h 30m
    1h 30m
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 10:00
Price details
€4.37 x 1 Adult€4.37
Total
Price is €4.37
Until Thu, 23 Jul

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Expert Tour Guide
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Service charge

Know before you book

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Transport options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Not recommended for travellers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for pregnant travellers
  • Not recommended for travellers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

Activity itinerary

John Hancock Center

  • 1m
The John Hancock Building is the 5th of the 5 tallest buildings in Chicago, each of which is over 1K feet tall.

Aon Center

  • 1m
The Aon Centre was the tallest building in Chicago for 1 whole year......until Sears Tower was built.

London Guarantee Building

  • 1m
The London Guarantee Building has a rooftop bar on top that is the only 3-story rooftop bar in Chicago.

Wrigley Building

  • 1m
The 30-story Wrigley Building was the tallest building in Chicago when built in 1924.

Apple Michigan Avenue

  • 1m
The land underneath the Apple Store is where Chicago's first non-native permanent resident- A black Frenchman named DuSable- built his cabin, which is why the area is called Pioneer Square.

Tribune Tower

  • 1m
Tribune Tower is the most architecturally significant building in Chicago (More so than Sears Tower) because it is considered the height of the European Revivalist Style popular for skyscrapers in the early 1920's (A picture of Tribune Tower appears in every architectural textbook in the world....Sorry Sears Tower).

InterContinental Chicago Magnificent Mile by IHG

  • 1m
Built in 1929 by the old-boys' club known as the Shriners, the InterContinental Hotel features a rooftop blimp landing dock that still exists today.

Trump International Hotel & Tower® Chicago

  • 1m
Trump International Hotel and Tower Chicago was designed by the same architect who built the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai — and the two towers look remarkably similar.

Marina City

  • 1m
Marina City is the first mixed-used (Apartments, retail, marina, rooftop deck) building in world history.

330 N. Wabash Avenue

  • 1m
The AMA Building is the largest and last building built by Mies Van Der Rohe, one of Chicago's most famous architects.

Salesforce Tower Chicago

  • 1m
Built in 2023, Salesforce Tower is the newest skyscraper in Chicago and looks down over Wolf Point, where the three branches of the river meet.

Reid Murdoch Building

  • 1m
The Reid-Murdoch Building is a late example of the Chicago School of architecture — the earliest style of skyscraper design.

The St. Regis Chicago

  • 1m
The St. Regis is the third of Chicago's five tallest buildings and features a highly visible blow-through floor on floor 83.

Merchandise Mart

  • 1m
The Merchandise Mart was the largest building in the world by square footage when it was built in 1930.

River Point

  • 1m
Built in 2017, River Point is one of Chicago's newer skyscrapers and features a striking fire-truck-red sculpture, Constellation, in its plaza.

Fulton House Condominium Association

  • 1m
Built in 1898, Fulton House is the oldest building on the Chicago River and functioned as a meat freezing facility for its first 100 years.

150 N Riverside Plaza

  • 1m
150 N. Riverside is a 54-story skyscraper that is only 39 feet wide at its base.

Willis Tower

  • 1m
Willis Tower (AKA Sears Tower) was the tallest building in the world for 24 years, but is now just the tallest building in Chicago.

Location

Activity location

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    John Hancock Center
    • 875 N Michigan Ave
    • 60611-1803, Chicago, Illinois, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    The Northman Beer & Cider Garden on the Riverwalk
    • 233 East Riverwalk
    • 60601, Chicago, Illinois, United States

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