Chicago

Tour Pricing Estimated Inclusions: 3 nights' hotel accommodation; 3 breakfasts; 1 dinner; admissions, entrance, and guide fees as stated in the itinerary, including taxes & gratuity. Except gratuity for guide fees is not included on adult tours unless otherwise requested.

• Guided City Tour
• Millennium Park
• Golden Age Tour
• Show at Tommy Guns Garage
• Shedd Aquarium
• Art Institute of Chicago
• The Magnificent Mile
• Frank Lloyd Wright Home
• 360 Chicago Observatory
• Architectural Landmarks Cruise
• Field Museum

• Arrive in Chicago. Meet GUIDE for a City Tour.
• See Millennium Park with spectacular views of the skyline for photos! Embark on a Historic Treasures of Chicago’s Golden Age tour.
• Learn about the great architectural landmarks of Michigan Avenue and State Street, with glimpses inside beautiful buildings from the 1890s-1930s. Highlights include the dazzling interiors of the Palmer House Hotel and the Chicago Cultural Center. After the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, Chicago was determined to become a great cultural and commercial metropolis.
• Visit the Auditorium Building, referred to as “The greatest room for music and opera in the world – bar none” by Frank Lloyd Wright. Enjoy the radiant 24-karat goldleafed ceiling arches, hundreds of beautifully restored intricate stencil patterns, ornate gilded and bas-relief designs, and the endless floor and wall mosaics and murals by Charles Holloway and Albert Fleury.
• Enjoy a welcome dinner and show at Tommy Gun’s Garage, including American dining with an interactive gangster & flapper show in Prohibition-themed speakeasy digs.
• Check in to area hotel for the evening.

• Enjoy breakfast at the hotel.
• Depart and visit the Field Museum of Natural History, it was incorporated in the State of Illinois on September 16, 1893 as the Columbian Museum of Chicago with its purpose the "accumulation and dissemination of knowledge, and the preservation and exhibition of objects illustrating art, archaeology, science and history." These institutions are regarded as among the finest of their kind in the world and together attract more visits annually than any comparable site in Chicago.
• Enjoy lunch on own while at the museum. Next visit Shedd Aquarium, it was opened in 1930, it is one of the oldest public aquariums in the world with a rich history.
• Visit the Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879 and located in Grant Park, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. including Trip Advisor’s #1 Chicago attraction.
• Enjoy dinner on own while downtown Chicago. Depart and return to hotel.

• Enjoy breakfast at the hotel.
• Depart and meet your GUIDE and enjoy a walking tour of The Magnificent Mile which is the northern part of Michigan Avenue between the Chicago River and Lake Shore Drive, and Chicago's version of the Champs-Elysees in Paris: a grand wide boulevard with exclusive shops, museums, restaurants and ritzy hotels. Architectural landmarks like the John Hancock Center and the Tribute Tower can be found in abundance along the avenue, as well as the Water Tower Place, a tower with more than 100 shops, theaters and restaurants. The oldest building along the Magnificent Mile is the Old Water Tower. The tower was built in 1869 and its castle-like architecture looks a bit out of place in this modern high-rise district.
• All the landmarks, the wide and beautiful boulevard, and the avenue's great vistas, the Magnificent Mile is a unique street that you shouldn't miss on your visit to Chicago.
• Lunch on own at GUIDE’s discretion.
• Next, aboard Chicago’s First Lady for the city’s official architecture tour. Led by the Chicago Architecture Center's knowledgeable and expertly trained docent volunteers, the cruise reveals fascinating stories behind Chicago's majestic buildings in a way no other tour can.
• Visit 360 Chicago Observatory located in the John Hancock building with a tilting glass lookout 1000 feet up!
• Return to hotel for a free evening and dinner on own.

• Enjoy breakfast at the hotel.
• Depart and tour the Frank Lloyd Wright Home, a historic house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright that has been restored to its 1909 appearance, which was the last year he lived there with his family.
• Guided Tour of Historic Oak Park Neighborhood, the world’s largest collection of Wright-designed buildings, on a 60-minute walking tour featuring exteriors of a rich selection of architecturally significant buildings supplements by archival photographs.
• Lunch on own in Downtown Oak Park.
• Visit Unity Temple, a Unitarian Universalist church designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built between 1905 and 1908. Tour Ernest Hemingway’s Birthplace Museum, where the author was born and lived the first six years of his life. Depart for home.