Three Unique Tours in Chicago

Chicago offers some of the greatest sightseeing opportunities in the United States. Typically, tourists gaze at the city's amazing architecture from a river boat, look down at the city while sipping a cocktail at the top of the John Hancock Center or ride a double-decker bus around town. If you are looking for a really unique Chicago experience consider one of Chicago's more unusual tours. Untouchable Tours, Chicago Ghost Tours and the Chicago Theater Marquee Tour give participants interesting insights into the Windy City.

Untouchable Tours

Untouchable Tours takes you back to Chicago's gangster era. The tour is conducted in a school bus that travels all over to Chicago. Guests will see the sites of the Valentine's Day Massacre, Al Capone's hideouts and the theater at which John Dillinger was killed. Guests will also see homes of notorious Chicago gangsters and sites of Prohibition Era speakeasies and illegal breweries. Two lively and extremely informed guides host the tour and give a very informative history of gangster activity during the Prohibition Era. Untouchable Tours offers two tours every day.

Chicago Ghost Tours

Ghost experts consider Chicago to be one of the most haunted cities in the United States. Chicago Ghost Tours is a fun, and sometimes creepy, tour of Chicago's haunted buildings. Guests board a school bus and embark on a trip to hunt down ghosts from the Prohibition Era and the Great Chicago Fire. The guides provide a very informed history of ghost sightings at each stop. Chicago Ghost Tours operates year round, but it is most popular around Halloween.

Chicago Theater Marquee Tour

The Chicago Theater is one of the world's grandest and most storied theaters. The Chicago Theater Marquee Tour takes guests behind the scenes of the famous theater. The tour begins in the lobby where the guide will explain the theater's transformation from a movie house to a dilapidated eye sore to its restoration that brought the theater back to its glory. Guests then get a demonstration of the theater's world famous Wurlitzer organ. The highlight of the tour occurs when guests are led onto the stage on which so many incredible stars performed. The Chicago Theater Marquee Tour is offered daily.

These three unique tours offer different ways to learn about Chicago's history and culture. While you are in Chicago, take the opportunity to get a glimpse of Chicago's past by taking one of these unique tours.