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Walking tours of Chicago's Bucktown and Wicker Park neighborhoods
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11/17/2024

Body buried in the basement? Go fish.

10/30/2024

The massacre at the Lincoln Tavern is just one Bucktown’s Dark Tales.

10/29/2024

Facts, once learned, cannot be unheard. Are you ready for neighborhood secrets?

10/28/2024

Dark Tales of Bucktown video tour includes:
- Welcome: Deep Secrets
- Lincoln Tavern: A Shocking Crime
- Lingering Death at the Bloomingdale Line
- The Chicago Bat Mothman Sightings
- Cortland’s Hard Hat Robbers Shootout
- A Deadly Threat Fulfilled
- The Necrophiliac Next Door
- The Black Widow of Bucktown
- Portrait of a Serial Killer
- A Hallowe’en Trick
PLUS FIFTEEN MORE
Streaming now at BizarreBucktown.com

10/21/2024

Learn 10 of the neighborhood’s most shocking secrets. (Plus another dozen facts that will surprise you.) streaming now at BizarreBucktown.com

10/06/2024

10/03/2024

Dark Tales of Bucktown video tour includes:
- Welcome: Deep Secrets
- Lincoln Tavern: A Shocking Crime
- Lingering Death at the Bloomingdale Line
- The Chicago Bat Mothman Sightings
- Cortland's Hard Hat Robbers Shootout
- A Deadly Threat Fulfilled
- The Necrophiliac Next Door
- The Black Widow of Bucktown
- Portrait of a Serial Killer
- A Hallowe'en Trick
PLUS FIFTEEN MORE
Streaming now at BizarreBucktown.com

09/30/2024

Meet the snake oil baron who built Wicker Park.

09/02/2024

Happy Labor Day! Did you know your Wicker Park neighbors were key in the labor movement? Find out the whole story on a Bizarre Wicker Park tour.

08/21/2024

Try my neighborhood puzzle-walk. A dozen historical locations. Available or e-versions on Kindle and Apple Books.

08/01/2024

Don’t miss this short WGN segement about Wicker Park in 1979. Back when the “Old Wicker Park Committee” saved our neighborhood.

Here's an installment of "Chicago Is...", one of a series of public affairs interstitials from WGN Channel 9, this time spotlighting Wicker Park on Chicago's...

05/01/2024

Happy May Day. Lucy was just one Wicker Park neighbor who helped change history and the world at large.

02/23/2024

Sasquatch spotted on the Bloomingdale Trail! Look closely, he’s camera shy. Can you see him? #606

12/23/2023

Now that we’ve eaten, let’s go on a streaming neighborhood tour at BizarreBucktown.com

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Happy 90th Birthday to Lottie Z. Her former pub is a highlight of the Bizarre Bucktown tour! Stop by @lottiespub to soak in some history and have some tasty tots. #wickerpark #bizarrechicago #altTravel #immersiveexperience #walkingtour #bucktown #chicagoneighborhoods #choosechicago #onechicago #mollies

Yup. It’s true, and just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to bizarre facts about Wicker Park. Get the video tour for many more.

Get the story behind the story. It’s surprising!

Be a Wicker Park expert. Impress your friends with inside knowledge of neighborhood history. A crash course in the strange and fascinating awaits BizarreWickerPark.com

Why would a bathhouse have an underground tunnel‽ Sex and alcohol, of course. (It’s still there, but sealed off.)

Video walking tours of the neighborhood, without the walking! Streaming at BizarreBucktown.com

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Indeed, some neighborhood secrets are beyond dark. Streaming now, if you dare. BizarreBucktown.com

Cortland Ave was “last call” for the Hard Hat Robbers, but it’s just one of Bucktown’s dark tales. Now streaming at BizarreBucktown.com

Halloween walking tours of Bucktown history, mystery, and ghosts now streaming at BizarreBucktown.com

A murdering temptress, the haunting of the 606, the Chicago mothman, and a basement corpse fetishist. All that, and more, when you look below the surface of Chicago’s beloved neighborhood. Now streaming at bizarreBucktown.com

The Black Widow of Bucktown is a highlight of my Dark Tales tour. Coercion, deception, manipulation, and murder just down the street! Now streaming at bizarreBucktown.com