Chicago Highlights Tour by Bus: Detour 101 for Morrissey Engineering

This Chicago highlights tour is based on quality and not quantity. Your tour guide will point out Chicago’s best and beautiful architectural landmarks and their backstories in downtown and beyond. Your Chicago highlights tour will include the broad overview of Chicago architecture and history from an insider perspective, beyond just flying by the sites with lots of dates and names. You’ll get a new way of looking at how cities grow and change over history as we explore everything from structures that survived the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 to Chicago’s architectural masterpieces, like historic skyscrapers, grand mansions, or modernist buildings.

You’ll learn about the incredible growth of Chicago around the turn of the 20th century, its power as a hub for communications, retail, and industry, its magnificent architecture, and life in the contemporary city. This private group highlights tour shares the stories behind buildings to make the big scale of Chicago feel more intimate. Your tour guide is a highly trained and knowledgeable professional, with a passion for sharing new ideas on Chicago architecture and history.

• Chicago Highlights Tour Sites
• Museum Campus skyline view
• The historic Water Tower
• Magnificent Mile shopping district
• Lakefront beaches and parks
• State Street – that great street
• Printer’s Row Historic District
• Downtown architecture:
• Monadnock Building
• Federal Plaza
• Daley Plaza
  

• The great Chicago fire
• Turn-of-the-century life
• Communications and industry
• Why Chicago is so famous for architecture
• Contemporary city living
• Core ideas in understanding the character of Chicago

Inclusions/Exclusions

• Luxury passenger coach bus 
• Engaging tour guide commentary
• Special gifts

Duration: 2 hours