Best Neighborhoods for Historic Chicago Pub Crawls
We love good Chicago historic pub crawls. Just ask the guests from our Historic Chicago Walking Bar Tour. Or the 1893 World’s Fair Tour with Bars. Or the Big Shoulders Historic Bar and Food Bus Tour, which takes guests through the working-class neighborhood of Bridgeport for stops in historic bars. Seems safe to say that […]
Visit These Six Spots for a Self-Guided SNL Chicago Tour
This self-guided SNL Chicago tour augments “SNL: The Experience,” which is at the Museum of Broadcast Communications right now. Even if you’ve already visited, this outing will be fun. Saturday Night Live will be launching its 44th (!) season on September 29th. Even though it’s “live from New York,” the roots of SNL are in Chicago’s […]
Learn About Edgar Miller, A Great Forgotten Chicago Artist
Edgar Miller is not a name that comes tripping off too many tongues in Chicago these days. I’ll admit that while I knew some of his work, I never heard his name until very recently. Yet 80 or 90 years ago his name was everywhere. Back then, you’d find a bubbling local arts scene with […]
How Sandburg Village Renewed Old Town
When I’m not nerding out on Chicago history here at Chicago Detours, I have a second job life-guarding at what I think is one of the most surreal places on the north side of Chicago – the private pools of the Carl Sandburg Village. This complex, located in the Old Town neighborhood consists of 9 […]