CHICAGO — Just outside the Art Institute, you can find history on tour. With each step there is a new fact on Chicago’s history through a rainbow lens. “We’ve always been here,” Daniel Williams said.

Founded and run by Hillary Marzec, Inside Chicago Walking Tours focuses on Chicago’s often overlooked interior spaces in downtown and its surrounding neighborhoods. Hillary joins Jon Hansen to share ...

Experience a John Hughes classic like never before. The “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” walking tour takes you to all the iconic filming spots across Chicago. Tour guide Dan joins us with more. June 5th, ...

Chicago’s walking tours are surging in popularity, expanding beyond downtown landmarks to historic neighborhoods and cultural hubs like Millennium Park. The variety now includes architecture cruises, ...

If you ask most Chicagoans, they'll say the West Loop is a new neighborhood with hot restaurants and sleek condo buildings, devoid of any real history. The big picture: Historian and author Connie ...

Will Quam discusses launching his brick-based walking tour company, Brick of Chicago, and how he’s making it work financially. Will Quam runs Brick of Chicago, a brick-based walking tour company in ...

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MACOMB, IL - - The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project (CRR19) is excited to host its first ever historic walking tour in Chicago's Loop from 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. Peter ...

If urban legend is to be believed, the world was forever changed on a dry, windy Chicago evening on 8 October 1871 by a cow called Daisy. She knocked over a lantern, causing one of the largest urban ...